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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