I doubt that it's actually glass, nor that it would shatter (lexan) Escaping cabin pressure air would blow any debris outward as it did the passenger. If if pulled her head out the window, the decompression probably caused her lungs to explode...or worse. Probably lots of blood.
If any "shrapnel" hit around the metal rim of the window opening, distorting it, the unit probably just blew out intact.
Agree, no deformation in the pictures I have seen to the outer skin or framing around the window. Also it appears any “shrapnel” would have not struck just the window as the outer casing on the engine nacelle literally blew apart.
Have been researching the engine defects and consistently turbofan engines suffer cracking on the blades, hence the need for containment by the shroud. A similar incident on a 737 slashed the wing severely and I am looking into what passes through the wing that if damaged could be more catastrophic. In he case of the A380 Quantas a lot of the hydraulics and other things were almost completely debilitated, if the engine were to do so on this plane it could create enough issues with airflow as to make the plane uncontrollable and result in a crash. Last in one of the videos the gentleman seated nearby said the was the first “bang” and then a few seconds later a second onw followed by the window failure
Still digging, all the airlines with the CFM-56 engines are checking their fleets, the A380 was a Rolls Royce built one and they have caused issues in Boeing aircraft (787) as well
Yes, you’re right. I already remarked to *100 that plane windows are acrylic, yesterday.
I don’t really *get” why, with that phenomenal amount of suction force to pull a human body out a window, that it isn’t suppose to be enough to first suck out a little acrylic pane out, in its entirety. Oh, well.... whatever.