Engine parts shattered Ryanair window that passenger was partly sucked out of, report says - AOL

Broken engine parts were behind the window break on a Ryanair flight in July that partially sucked a passenger out mid-flight, US investigators said. In a preliminary NTSB report, a fan blade detached shortly after takeoff on the 10 July segment from Thessaloniki, Greece, toward Germany. The flight, FR1879, was operated by Malta Air and scheduled to fly to Memmingen near Munich. Serbian entrepreneur Ljubisa Karović, seated in 11F, had his head and right arm pulled through the opening before fellow passengers grabbed him. The NTSB said the aircraft experienced a No 2 right engine fan-blade-out failure during climb-out; the cabin depressurized and the pilots returned to Thessaloniki, landing uneventfully. Investigators noted prior bird strikes to the right engine and that the fan blades had undergone ultrasonic inspections in recent months.