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A broken fan blade sent engine debris ripping through the fuselage of a Ryanair Boeing 737, shattering a passenger window and partially ejecting a 61-year-old man, and investigators now say a bird strike may have triggered the catastrophic failure. The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on the July 10 incident aboard Ryanair […] The post NTSB finds bird strike evidence after Ryanair passenger was nearly pulled through shattered window appeared first on American Almanac .
A broken fan blade sent engine debris ripping through the fuselage of a Ryanair Boeing 737, shattering a passenger window and partially ejecting a 61-year-old man, and investigators now say a bird strike may have triggered the catastrophic failure. The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on the July 10 incident aboard Ryanair Flight 1879, detailing how fragments from the plane's No. 2 engine sliced into the fuselage at multiple points, destroyed a window in row 11, and caused rapid cabin depressurization minutes after takeoff from Thessaloniki, Greece. The flight, bound for Memmingen, Germany, carried 149 passengers and six crew members. Only one person, the Serbian man seated in 11F, was injured, and his…Open
The National Transportation Safety Board said it had found a bird’s remains and feathers on a broken engine.
An American Airlines flight carrying 181 people made an emergency landing in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Monday after a bird strike sent flames streaming from the left engine seconds after takeoff, and the pilot's mayday call captured the moment in real time. Flight 1760, a Boeing 737 bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, had barely […] The post American Airlines Boeing 737 forced back to Myrtle Beach after bird strike sends flames shooting from engine appeared first on American Almanac .
An American Airlines flight carrying 181 people made an emergency landing in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Monday after a bird strike sent flames streaming from the left engine seconds after takeoff, and the pilot's mayday call captured the moment in real time. Flight 1760, a Boeing 737 bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, had barely left the runway when passengers felt the aircraft shudder and saw fire erupt beneath the left wing. The pilot radioed air traffic control immediately. His words, captured on a LiveATC recording, were blunt: "Mayday, mayday, mayday. We've got an engine problem here." A second pilot monitoring the frequency saw what happened from the air. "I saw he took up birds, it looked like, at least in the left side…Open
A bird strike, likely involving multiple geese, brought down a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River in April 2025, killing a Spanish family of five and their pilot, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report released this week. The Bell 206L-4 helicopter, operated by New York Helicopter Charter Inc., broke apart in midair […] The post NTSB finds bird strike most likely caused deadly Hudson River helicopter crash appeared first on American Almanac .
A bird strike, likely involving multiple geese, brought down a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River in April 2025, killing a Spanish family of five and their pilot, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report released this week. The Bell 206L-4 helicopter, operated by New York Helicopter Charter Inc., broke apart in midair roughly 17 minutes after lifting off from lower Manhattan on the afternoon of April 10, 2025. It fell into the Hudson River near the New Jersey shoreline. No one survived. The NTSB's findings bring a measure of clarity to a crash that devastated a vacationing family and raised fresh questions about the safety of tour helicopter operations over one of the most congested airspaces in the…Open