Engine blade failure sucked passenger through Ryanair window, US investigators find

Serbian passenger Ljubisa Karović suffered serious injuries with head and right shoulder sucked through cabin window; wife and passengers held his legs to prevent complete extraction.

At 10,000 feet over the Aegean, a fractured engine fan blade on a Ryanair flight reminded the world that the margin between routine travel and catastrophe can be measured in the thickness of a single metal component. A Serbian passenger was partially pulled through a shattered cabin window during the July 10 climb out of Thessaloniki, saved only by the hands of his wife and two strangers who held him until the aircraft descended to safety. The National Transportation Safety Board, now leading the investigation, has found no evidence of external damage — only a blade that broke, and an inspecti

Engine blade failure sucked passenger through Ryanair window, US investigators find

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