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Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure

https://simpleflying.com/ryanair-thessaloniki-diversion-window-damage/
23•amelius•1h ago

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pfdietz•1h ago
This is one reason to always be wearing your seat belt tightly when flying.
hulitu•1h ago
Common, it never happened to me. /s
pfdietz•1h ago
"Low probability very high consequence situation has never happened to me, therefore I needn't do anything." -- someone who doesn't understand expectation in probability.
tgsovlerkhgsel•39m ago
They even put a "/s" at the end of their comment...
root-parent•38m ago
Because its a Ryanair flight?
pfdietz•30m ago
:)
culopatin•47m ago
I wonder if Ryanair is going to charge them for being oversized to fit through their designated window.
root-parent•39m ago
Window seat: €12.99
Epa095•3m ago
They will start charging extra for getting to not sit by a window.
flutas•34m ago
Extremely similar to Southwest flight 1380 which killed a person in the US after they were partially sucked out of a broken window from an engine failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

w4der•30m ago
And both were Boeing 737s ... (albeit different variants)
niwtsol•33m ago
I thought that the speed of the air moving outside of the plane had a bigger impact on the pressure imbalance that causes someone to be "sucked out" of plane. It appears that is a false belief, the inside/outside pressure difference is from the artificial pressurization of the internal cabin. I blame a high school physics teacher for the memorable "why does a soft top convertible poof out when driving fast?" question as a preamble to explaining bernoulli for my false assumption.
root-parent•31m ago
R.Y.A.N.A.I.R. — Remove Yourself And Never Ask If Refunded
Banania•22m ago
From https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk65knkyzdo Media reports in Greece and Germany quoted passengers describing a loud bang followed by the window breaking and oxygen masks falling from the ceiling shortly after the Boeing 737 had taken off.

They believe the window was smashed by pieces of the jet's engine - although Ryanair has not commented on this.

zh3•19m ago
First place to look when this sort of thing happens is pprune.org - lots of pilots on there, often with specific knowledge of the aircraft type and/or of the incident itself.

In this case: https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/672872-ryanair-...

trolleski•16m ago
Look, it's cheap. You either get safety or low cost. If they introduced no-window flights for 1€ there will be many who will buy those flights. So there, stop whining, accept the shïte.
tantalor•3m ago
I don't know if some random Facebook account named "Airlines Secrets Exposed" is a very reliable source of information.
clickety_clack•3m ago
Well, this isn’t very typical, I’d like to make that point.

Look, the windows not supposed to fall off, for a start. These things are built to rigorous aeronautical engineering standards — cardboard’s out, cardboard derivatives, no cellotape, no string. So chance in a million, really.

And to be clear, the plane that the front fell off was flown to safety. So there’s nothing out there but birds, air, wind and clouds… and the window that fell off.

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Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure

https://simpleflying.com/ryanair-thessaloniki-diversion-window-damage/
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