AI Overview:
The incident involved a Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by Ryanair (flight FR-1879) traveling from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany. Shortly after takeoff, debris detached from the plane’s engine and struck the cabin window, shattering it and causing a rapid decompression that nearly pulled a passenger outside.
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???
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….