{"id":703566,"date":"2026-07-21T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703566\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:31:09","slug":"ryanair-broken-window-may-have-been-caused-by-foreign-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703566\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair broken window may have been caused by ‘foreign object’"},"content":{"rendered":"

An incident on a Ryanair flight which saw a passenger partially sucked out of a plane window may have been caused by “foreign object damage” to an engine, said the airline’s boss.<\/p>\n

Michael O’Leary said an initial investigation into the incident on 10 July between Greece and Germany suggests “it looks like a foreign object damage to the engine on takeoff at Thessaloniki but … we can’t say that definitively”.<\/p>\n

He insisted that the engine on the 18-year-old Boeing 737 plane had been fully serviced and overhauled in the past two years.<\/p>\n

Serbian national Ljubisa Karovi\u0107’s<\/a> head and right shoulder were sucked out of the plane’s window, leaving him “seriously injured and in shock”.<\/p>\n

His wife Svetlana Grkovi\u0107 Maksimovi\u0107 told BBC Serbia<\/a> that she and two other passengers held on to his legs for several minutes. <\/p>\n

She said: “We pulled him back together. His entire face was deformed and blood was pouring from his nose and mouth.”<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital after the plane made an emergency landing.<\/p>\n

Passengers told local media they heard “some kind of explosion” on board.<\/p>\n

The aircraft was operated by Ryanair’s subsidiary Malta Air.<\/p>\n

Confirmation that the damage was caused by an external object could affect Ryanair or Boeing’s liabilities over the incident.<\/p>\n

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating. O’Leary said that a draft report would be issued in about 28 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An incident on a Ryanair flight which saw a passenger partially sucked out of a plane window may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}