{"id":592529,"date":"2026-08-14T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592529\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:32:08","slug":"bird-remains-in-engine-of-plane-man-almost-sucked-out-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592529\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird remains in engine of plane man almost sucked out of"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird remains were found in the engine of a Ryanair Boeing 737 NG plane where a passenger was partially sucked through a broken window shortly after takeoff from Greece in July, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said.<\/p>\n

The NTSB is investigating the incident where a piece of the engine broke off the plane and smashed the window, leaving one passenger with serious injuries.<\/a><\/p>\n

The plane, headed to Germany, lost pressure and was forced to make an emergency landing.<\/p>\n

The NTSB said in its preliminary report into the 10 July incident that four suspected bird strikes to the airplane’s No 2 engine were reported by flight crew in the 12 months preceding the incident.<\/p>\n

“Bird remains were reportedly found in two of the cases,” although no damage was located during subsequent maintenance, it said.<\/p>\n

A loud bang sound was recorded about nine minutes and 20 seconds after the start of the takeoff roll, according to the cockpit voice recorder cited in the report.<\/p>\n

Examination of the engine revealed cases of fractured fan blades, while three loose fan blade fragments were recovered from the engine.<\/p>\n

Read more: ‘Chaos broke out’, says wife as man almost sucked out of Ryanair plane<\/a><\/p>\n

The NTSB said the CFM engine made by a venture between France’s Safran SAF.PA and US-based General Electric GE.N had been inspected in May with no findings.<\/p>\n

Ryanair declined to comment while a spokesperson for CFM said it was assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n

Boeing deferred to the NTSB, citing the agency’s requirements and international rules governing air crash investigations.<\/p>\n

The NTSB, an independent US government agency that investigates civil transportation accidents, is leading the investigation into the Ryanair flight.<\/p>\n

The agency said it is still looking at whether the incident is similar to other cases, such as an April 2018 engine failure on a US Southwest Airlines LUV.N flight that killed a passenger who was partially sucked out the window.<\/p>\n

“The investigative team is aware of previous … events with similar engine models that resulted in damage to engine inlets or cowlings and fuselage structures,” the report said.<\/p>\n

“Determination of any relevant similarities or details between this accident and previous events remains under investigation.”<\/p>\n

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told Reuters last month in an interview: “I don’t think the early indications are \u200cthat (the \u2060recent Ryanair problem) mimics what the Southwest incident was.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bird remains were found in the engine of a Ryanair Boeing 737 NG plane where a passenger was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-592529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}