America’s National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday it will lead the investigation into an incident in which a passenger was partly sucked out of a Ryanair Boeing 737’s broken window over Greece last week.
A piece of engine broke off the Boeing 737 NG and smashed the windowshortly after takeofffrom Thessaloniki in Greece on July 10, according to video and the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane, headed to Germany, lost pressure and made an emergency landing.
Fellow passengers held on to Serbian national Ljubisa Karovic as he was pulled out the window. He was injured and hospitalised.
Video footage shot by passengers on board the aircraft showed the remnants of a shattered window on the right hand side of the cabin with oxygen masks dangling from the ceiling – testimony to the rapid depressurisation of the 18-year-old Boeing 737 aircraft shortly after it took off at 6.01am local time.
The plane was flying at 15,000ft when passengers said they heard a loud bang before the aircraft started to descend, spending 30 minutes burning fuel before it landed safely at Thessaloniki Airport.
Multiple outlets reported that an engine failure was responsible for the noise and the window breaking (Photo: Rthess.gr)Christina, a passenger on board the aircraft told Radio Thessaloniki that it appeared the man had been saved by the fact that he had not removed his seat belt.
She said: “We immediately realised there had been a decompression. There were screams… for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door.
“The masks dropped and there was a strong smell. The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he hadn’t taken off his seat belt.”
The jet was being operated by Malta Air, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ryanair whose aircraft have the same livery as the Irish parent company.
The event had similarities to problems on two prior Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 NG flights in 2016 and 2018. In the latter, a passenger died after being partially sucked out of a window damaged by a broken fan blade.
But FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told Reuters: “I don’t think the early indications are that (the recent Ryanair problem) mimics what the Southwest incident was.”
After the Southwest incident, the NTSB called on Boeing to redesign the fan cowl structure on 737 NG planes, and the FAA issued an airworthiness directive in 2023 to be completed by 2028.
Bedford said the ongoing investigation is prompting a full reevaluation of the FAA response to the 2018 incident. “Did we miss something? Way too early to tell – but we can’t take it off the board yet,” Bedford said.
Southwest said Thursday it has completed the work on approximately 80% of its affected planes and was ahead of schedule to meet the FAA’s July 2028 deadline.
With input from Reuters
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