A UK air traffic control system issue canceled 625 flights and left travelers facing nationwide delays, renewing demands for accountability after repeated NATS breakdowns. A Daily Mail report said 625 arrivals and departures had been canceled by 5 p.m. as disruption hit major British airports. National Air Traffic Services said the problem involved its flight […] The post NATS system issue causes 625 UK flight cancellations appeared first on American Almanac .
A UK air traffic control system issue canceled 625 flights and left travelers facing nationwide delays, renewing demands for accountability after repeated NATS breakdowns. A Daily Mail report said 625 arrivals and departures had been canceled by 5 p.m. as disruption hit major British airports. National Air Traffic Services said the problem involved its flight processing system. NATS later declared the issue resolved, but airlines still faced a large backlog and scrambled to rebuild their schedules. The breakdown reached Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and London City. Airports in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Nottingham, Bristol, Stansted and Jersey also faced disruption. Passengers bore the cost in missed flights, long…Open
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
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