For Survivors of Southwest Engine Explosion, What Comes Next?

• International passengers may not qualify for ‘fright’ claims • Passengers, crew have various remedies under the law

Being on an airplane more than six miles in the air when an engine blows up and sends shrapnel through a window is an experience so scary that aviation lawyers say it’s not just the family of the woman killed on aSouthwest Airlines Co.flight this week who could have a case.

“All of the passengers here, and the crew, will likely have claims,” said Robert Clifford, founder of Chicago-basedClifford Law Offices, who’s been involved in every domestic commercial ...