Deserves a gaytor shout out though.
Posted on 07/10/2026 7:01:07 AM PDT by 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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Maintenance matters
The Bond film, Goldfinger
I began to actually like the 737
when they got to the -300 up to -800 series
Though I remember USAir Flight 427 was a Boeing 737-300.
I had just landed in Connecticut that same day
Though this wasn’t a MAX I still don’t want to fly in a MAX
Now we know who bought all those defective Boeing
737max jets!
That’s a curious definition of “dislodged”
“...I chop down trees, and wear high heals.....”
Don’t be a heal!
The engine's case (the containment ring around the fan/compressor) is built to contain a single failed blade — that's a certification requirement. It's not designed to contain a complete compressor disk failure.
A compressor or turbine disk holds far more rotational energy than a blade, so a disk burst is classified as an "uncontained engine failure" — fragments can punch through the case at high energy. Disk fragments carry enough energy to blow through both the case and the nacelle, which is why rotor bursts are "uncontained" regardless of the nacelle being there.
FAA Part 33 requires blade containment (engines must undergo "blade-off" tests and the case must catch a released blade), but there's no equivalent requirement for disk failures. Disk (rotor) bursts are treated as inherently uncontained — the regulatory approach (AC 20-128A) is mitigation, not containment. Since no practical casing can contain that amount of energy, aircraft designers route critical systems (hydraulics, fuel lines, controls) outside the calculated "rotor burst zone" — the debris path in the plane of the disk — to reduce the odds that an uncontained failure disables the plane.
Another example of why you should avoid discount airlines.
My thought BEFORE reading article.
Ryanair - when attaching your name to a business sounded like a great idea at the time.
They are Europe’s version of Spirit Airlines without all the combative negroes.
You did knot go there
Small wonder they imported more moors!
“Dislodged window ? How does that happen ?”
Read the OP.
Deserves a gaytor shout out though.
I see you have joined the three amigos and delta7 in their putin adoration.
I cannot see why you would support a pro-Hamas evil dictator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xfaDr0nhoQ
The wind screen on a passenger jet failed and the pilot was sucked out, one of the crew was able to grab his legs and hold him while they found the closes airport to land. Hi lived but has no memory of the event.
A piece of engine broke off. 😮
That is common of airports serviced by Ryan Air. A cheap economy airline that uses old military fields some distances from major cities.
Why do I keep hearing Julie Haggerty gasp “Sucked out?!”?
This guy was fortunate, especially given it was his head that was sucked out. I know of 2 other cases like this. In one a woman was partially sucked out a passenger window but did not survive. In the other, a maintenance technician used the wrong bolts when replacing a cockpit window. The senior pilot was sucked out but his feet caught on the controls with everything above his knees outside the aircraft. The chief steward grabbed hold of his legs and hung on despite suffering frostbite before the co-pilot was able to land the plane. The pilot survived and returned to flying.
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