Passengers on a Ryanair flight from Malta to Birmingham say they were trapped for over an hour in a cabin with no air conditioning, with at least two people losing consciousness, and the airline's response has only deepened their frustration. Eva Gregory, a 16-year-old from Derby, England, described a grueling sequence of delays and heat […] The post Ryanair passengers allegedly collapse, vomit after sitting in sweltering cabin without air conditioning appeared first on American Almanac .
Passengers on a Ryanair flight from Malta to Birmingham say they were trapped for over an hour in a cabin with no air conditioning, with at least two people losing consciousness, and the airline's response has only deepened their frustration. Eva Gregory, a 16-year-old from Derby, England, described a grueling sequence of delays and heat exposure aboard Flight FR7268 on August 10 that left passengers sick, panicked, and furious. The flight was scheduled to depart Malta at 5:40 p.m. It did not leave the ground until roughly 7:00 p.m. local time. In between, Gregory and her family say they endured conditions that no paying customer should have to tolerate. Gregory told the Daily Mail that the ordeal began well before boarding. She and her…Open
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
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
An Alaska Airlines pilot halted his Boeing 737 on the taxiway at Miami International Airport and called for law enforcement after flight attendants reported that passengers had threatened to take over the plane, yet both disruptive travelers walked free without arrest. The crew of Flight 305, bound for Seattle, was taxiing for departure on Sunday […] The post Alaska Airlines pilot locked down cockpit after passengers allegedly threatened to seize aircraft appeared first on American Almanac .
An Alaska Airlines pilot halted his Boeing 737 on the taxiway at Miami International Airport and called for law enforcement after flight attendants reported that passengers had threatened to take over the plane, yet both disruptive travelers walked free without arrest. The crew of Flight 305, bound for Seattle, was taxiing for departure on Sunday evening when the pilot radioed air traffic control with an urgent message: customers onboard were making threats. Within moments, the situation escalated. The pilot set the parking brake, shut down the engine, and initiated a full lockdown protocol, cockpit doors sealed, aircraft stopped cold on the taxiway. Air traffic control audio obtained by ATCapp , an air traffic control tracking service,…Open
Southwest and other airlines had wanted to begin offering service with the aircraft prior to the pandemic, but the certification faced years of delays resulting from fatal crashes of the Max 8 model, a redesign of the engine anti-icing system and other safety and manufacturing problems.
Flight attendants at Canada's second-largest airline launched a strike over a pay dispute on Sunday, grounding more than 300 flights and stranding travelers at the height of summer. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 4,400 cabin crew members at WestJet, announced the work stoppage on its Facebook page. WestJet confirmed it canceled more […] The post WestJet flight attendants walk off the job, canceling more than 300 flights across Canada appeared first on American Almanac .
Flight attendants at Canada's second-largest airline launched a strike over a pay dispute on Sunday, grounding more than 300 flights and stranding travelers at the height of summer. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 4,400 cabin crew members at WestJet, announced the work stoppage on its Facebook page. WestJet confirmed it canceled more than 300 flights as of early Sunday and said it could not operate any scheduled service on its Boeing 737 or 787 aircraft, the backbone of its fleet. The airline said travelers would be refunded or moved to other flights. The walkout centers on a straightforward question: whether flight attendants should be paid for work they perform on the ground before and after flights. The union…Open
A 61-year-old Serbian businessman has described the moment a Ryanair jet's window exploded beside him at 15,000 feet, and his wife says she fought a force that nearly pulled him out of the aircraft for good. Ljubisa Karovic was asleep in seat 11F aboard Ryanair flight FR1879 on July 10 when a deafening blast tore […] The post Ryanair passenger sucked through shattered window at 15,000 feet gives first full account of mid-flight ordeal appeared first on American Almanac .
A 61-year-old Serbian businessman has described the moment a Ryanair jet's window exploded beside him at 15,000 feet, and his wife says she fought a force that nearly pulled him out of the aircraft for good. Ljubisa Karovic was asleep in seat 11F aboard Ryanair flight FR1879 on July 10 when a deafening blast tore through the cabin. The window next to him shattered. Cabin pressure dropped. And Karovic, still strapped to his seat, was partially sucked through the opening of a Boeing 737 traveling at nearly 500 miles per hour. He lost consciousness almost immediately. His wife, Svetlana Grkovic Maksimovic, seated three rows behind him in an aisle seat, watched her husband begin to disappear through the fuselage. She lunged forward, grabbed…Open
‘We immediately realised there had been a decompression’
A man’s head was allegedly sucked out of a cabin window that broke apart mid-flight on a European budget flight Friday while passengers stepped forward to hold him in the cabin. The flight departed Thessaloniki, Greece, for Memmingen, Germany, then turned back shortly after takeoff, the airline Ryanair said in a statement obtained by the BBC. The Irish budget airline said a passenger window “dislodged” in the air and the plane landed safely, with travelers returning to the terminal. “One passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki,” the airline continued. Christina, a passenger, reportedly described what unfolded inside the cabin. “We immediately realised there had been a decompression.…Open
A 61-year-old Serbian man was ripped from his seat and partially pulled through a shattered cabin window at roughly 20,000 feet aboard a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 flying out of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the family's lawyer now claims the same aircraft made an emergency return to the same airport just one day earlier. Ljubiša Karović remains […] The post Ryanair Boeing 737 reportedly returned to airport one day before passenger was partially sucked through broken window appeared first on American Almanac .
A 61-year-old Serbian man was ripped from his seat and partially pulled through a shattered cabin window at roughly 20,000 feet aboard a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 flying out of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the family's lawyer now claims the same aircraft made an emergency return to the same airport just one day earlier. Ljubiša Karović remains hospitalized in serious condition, unable to speak and suffering from shock, burns, and neck injuries. His wife, Svetlana Grković, says no one from Ryanair has contacted the family. The airline's public statements have been terse, clinical, and carefully limited. The prior-day return and the airline's refusal to engage raise hard questions about whether a known mechanical issue was waved off before…Open