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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NTSB says broken engine parts shattered Ryanair plane window that a man's head got sucked into
A fan blade in the Boeing 737-800's right engine broke loose, sending fragments flying out of the engine that broke the window and damaged the fuselage in several other places, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board.
On a Ryanair flight, there are bad scenes that you actually know from movies: a man is partly sucked out of a destroyed window and can only be saved with difficulty. Now it is clear what caused the big damage to the plane. More questions are however open.
A tourist on board a flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, on 10 July, was found with his head stuck in a window of the cabin which had broken and had to be fired inside the aircraft by other passengers.
A passenger was partially pulled out of the damaged cabin window after parts of a failed engine had penetrated the fuselage of the Boeing 737. The US authority NTSB has now released a preliminary report.
According to an expert report, debris from the engine caused the pressure drop in an Ryanair aircraft.
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