A passenger on a Ryanair flight was reportedly almost sucked out of a window after it shattered in mid-air during a journey from Greece.
The man was said to have been lifted out of his seat into the plane’s slipstream and hung headfirst out of the window after an engine failure resulted in parts smashing the acrylic window, according to local reports.
The passenger, reportedly a 61-year-old Serbian, was saved from being completely sucked out of the Boeing 737 because his wife “held him by the legs”.
The incident took place on Ryanair flight FR1879, which was scheduled to fly from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen near Munich in Germany on Friday. It was operated by the the budget airline’s subsidiary Malta Air.
of course it’s a boeing
Better article with actual pictures:
https://avherald.com/h?article=53ba2a01&opt=0It looks like there was a blade separation and it somehow bypassed the abradable shroud. Both of these things should not happen, but it’s happened before on the CF56M engine and there’s an AD (Airworthiness Directive) to address that possibility. I wonder if Malta Air has complied with the AD.
