{"id":737220,"date":"2026-08-14T00:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737220\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:36:09","slug":"engine-parts-smashed-ryanair-window-that-mans-head-was-sucked-out-of-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737220\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine parts smashed Ryanair window that man’s head was sucked out of, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane last month causing a man’s head and right shoulder to be sucked into the hole, US investigators have said.<\/p>\n

In a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said this happened after an engine fan blade broke shortly after takeoff on the 10 July flight from Greece to Germany.<\/p>\n

Serbian national Ljubisa Karovi\u0107’s 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 later told BBC Serbia<\/a> that she and two other passengers held on to his legs for several minutes.<\/p>\n

In its report, the NTSB said the flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen “experienced a No. 2 (right) engine fan-blade-out (FBO) failure during climb out”. <\/p>\n

“The crew elected to return to SKG [Thessaloniki International Airport] where they made an uneventful landing.”<\/p>\n

The NTSB was “delegated the investigation in full” by the Greek authorities in the days following the incident.<\/p>\n

It also detailed a timeline of events given by the flight crew, who said they received a “high vibration” engine alert during the climb.<\/p>\n

In response, they reduced the engine power and carried out a series of checks. When the vibrations stopped, the crew continued to climb on autopilot, the report said.<\/p>\n

But the engine vibrations then increased and the crew heard a loud bang, prompting them to declare an emergency and begin their descent.<\/p>\n

Flight attendants reported hearing and feeling the vibrations, and seeing a small amount of smoke before the oxygen masks were deployed.<\/p>\n

One flight attendant said they then noticed passengers calling for help after a passenger became “partially lodged in a damaged cabin window”, with the entire window missing.<\/p>\n

The engine had undergone ultrasonic inspections in May this year with no findings of fault, the report stated.<\/p>\n

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary earlier suggested that the incident may have been caused by “foreign object damage” to an engine.<\/a><\/p>\n

The aircraft was operated by Ryanair’s subsidiary Malta Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane last month causing a man’s head and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737220","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\/737220","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=737220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}