Broken engine parts shattered the Ryanair plane window that a man’s head got sucked into: NTSB
Investigators found bird remains and fatigue cracking on the failed blade as they examine whether a foreign object strike helped trigger the breakup.
- On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report confirming a fan blade failure on the July 10 Ryanair flight caused a cabin window to shatter, partially sucking a passenger out of the aircraft.
- Bird remains found in the engine and evidence of fatigue cracking on the fan blade prompted debris to puncture the fuselage and shatter the window at row 11.
- Fellow passengers pulled 61-year-old Ljubisa Karovic back into the cabin after he was partially sucked through the broken window while seated in 11F, causing significant injuries.
- The NTSB reprimanded Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary, noting his public comments violated international aviation rules and that he was not authorized to discuss the ongoing accident investigation.
- Investigators continue examining potential similarities to the 2018 Southwest Airlines incident, though determination of specific contributing factors to this accident remains ongoing.
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A flight with Ryanair became a blatant horror for a man: shortly after the take-off a window broke, the 61-year-old was sucked out of the plane. Head and arm were already outside, just in time he could be withdrawn. Now the reason for the disc bursting is clear. A wing leaf of the right engine was broken, splinters flew around and smashed the window. This emerges from a preliminary report of the US traffic authority NTSB, which took over the inv…
Preliminary findings of the investigation into a serious incident on a flight between Greece and Germany in July have been made public.
Report into Ryanair window break makes startling finding
A report into the Ryanair plane involved in a terrifying incident in which a passenger was partially sucked through a broken window shortly after take-off has made a series of astonishing findings. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident, which happened on a Ryanair Boeing 737 NG on July 10. The […]
On a Ryanair flight from Greece to Germany, a passenger's head and right shoulder were pulled out of the cabin window after an engine part shattered it. The passenger, who was seriously injured, was held by his wife and two other people by his legs for several minutes before being trapped inside the cabin.
It was actually a routine flight with Ryanair from Thessaloniki to Memmingen. Suddenly it popped and a passenger was pulled out of the plane.
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