Engine parts smashed Ryanair window that man's head was sucked out of, report says
Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane last month causing a man's head and right shoulder to be sucked into the hole, US investigators have said. In a preliminary report, โฆ
Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane last month causing a man's head and right shoulder to be sucked into the hole, US investigators have said.
In a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said this happened after an engine fan blade broke shortly after takeoff on the 10 July flight from Greece to Germany.
Serbian national Ljubisa Karoviรย's head and right shoulder were sucked out of the plane's window, leaving him "seriously injured and in shock".
His wife Svetlana Grkoviรย Maksimoviรย later told BBC Serbia that she and two other passengers held on to his legs for several minutes.
In its report, the NTSB said the flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen "experienced a No. 2 (right) engine fan-blade-out (FBO) failure during climb out".
"The crew elected to return to SKG [Thessaloniki International Airport] where they made an uneventful landing."
The NTSB was "delegated the investigation in full" by the Greek authorities in the days following the incident.
It also detailed a timeline of events given by the flight crew, who said they received a "high vibration" engine alert during the climb.
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