Passenger reportedly partially sucked out dislodged window during Ryanair flight takeoff

Thomson Reuters via CBC News ^ | July 10, 2026

[jerod]

Plane forced to make emergency landing shortly after takeoff in Greece after window dislodged

Ryanair said one of its planes was forced into an emergency landing at Thessaloniki airport in Greece shortly after takeoff on Friday after a window was "dislodged," with two industry sources saying a passenger was partially sucked out of it.

The airline said one person received medical assistance, but did not elaborate on the cause.

The plane was scheduled to fly from Thessaloniki to Memmingen airport in Germany but returned to Thessaloniki "when a passenger window dislodged inflight," Ryanair said in a statement.

FlightRadar24 showed a Boeing jet en route to Memmingen diverted back to Thessaloniki on Friday morning.

The same plane had diverted back to Thessaloniki on a flight to Sarajevo on Thursday evening, also shortly after takeoff, according to the data and a source, although it is unclear why.

Local media in Greece reported that a piece of engine broke off and smashed a window during the flight on Friday, causing the cabin to decompress and sucking one passenger partially out of the window. Two sources with knowledge of the incident relayed the same details to Reuters...

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[Responsibility2nd]

The passenger later told reporters.....

 

[RWGinger]

What is that video from?

[PAR35]

Weird place for a commercial airport. Looks like an ex-military field in the in the middle of nowhere. Hour and a half drive or so from Munich, 2 and a half from Zurich. Two hours to Konstanz. Ulm’s the closest at an hour drive but it only has about 130,000 people.

The airport can accommodate two narrow body jets at a time, and has no jetways. It does, however, appear to have massive parking lots.

[RWGinger]

Nicely done.

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

Ryanair is a greyhound bus but with wings. One of the worst airlines in the world.

[pfflier]

Boeing

Again, NO!!

The reports say a piece of engine separated and shattered the window. Boeing doesn't make the engines.

They did make an airplane that withstood the damage though. How about some credit for that?

[PAR35]

Boeing doesn’t manufacture the engines.

Boeing is, however, responsible for the engine nacelles which are suppose to contain the results of a turbine failure.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-33/subpart-F/section-33.94

[tired&retired]

“Paying for that extra seat probably saved this person’s life.”

Ryan Air is the budget airline in Europe. Dublin Ireland is their home office and main hub airport. I’ve flown it many times. It’s cheaper than a taxi. Dublin to London was 10 Euro.

I just checked their current fares, Dublin to Athens for 75 Euro, Dublin to Barcelona for 40 Euro, Dublin to Rome 43 Euro...

I frequently stay in Dublin and just keep booking flights to my chosen destination.

They herd you like cattle in gates. You walk across the tarmac and up the steps to board, and there are no assigned seats. You just pile in.

They typically are 30 minutes from landing to takeoff, with a very high on time rating.

[tired&retired]

Ryan Air typically uses smaller airports near major cities. Less crowded and much lower fees. Then they often run a bus into the city.

[dfwgator]

Verrifast Plaine Co. LTD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMA2WSBMnvc

[null and void]

Yup, and Boeing doesn’t make the engines, just the airframe.

You’re not going to ruin a perfectly good pile-on with facts are you???

[fruser1]

Well, it’s better than being sucked through the toilet.

And if that had actually been the case, would anyone have helped to pull him out?

[hecticskeptic]

Shortly after takeoff, debris detached from the plane’s engine and struck the cabin window, shattering it….
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Hmmmm… shades of a few incidents for which the root cause was fatigue crack of a fan blade…?
- April 17, 2018, Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, a Boeing 737-700 flying from LaGuardia Airport, New York, en route to Dallas….
- August 27, 2016, Southwest Airlines Flight 3472, a Boeing 737-700 from New Orleans to Orlando International Airport in Orlando….

[Hyman Roth]

I see what you did there. :>)

[Organic Panic]

Yeah. I don’t get it. I have been in aircraft manufacturing 25 years now. I have seen engine nacelle destruction tests and they are quite.....exciting. Rev them up to full RPM, launch the spud in to the engine, and what fun. Being that it is Ryan Air, I am guessing short cuts were taken somewhere and it wasn’t really part of the engine. But even then, it takes a hell of a lot to break a window.

We will never know.

[tired&retired]

Love it. When I was in college in the 1970’s, parties would stop every night for the 30 minutes when Monty Python came on.

I am a lumberjack, and I’m OK
I sleep all night, and I work all day......

I chop down trees, and wear high heals.....

[OldHarbor]

Thanks, I read the excerpt except for the last line .

[Sirius Lee]

Lawyers will see this as a window of opportunity.

They're such a pane.

[muir_redwoods]

Many passengers claim Ryanaire sucks. I did not know that was meant literally.

[SunkenCiv]

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