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Note to self: stop picking the window seat on flights
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:14 am
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:14 am
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Man partially sucked out of broken Ryanair plane window during flight, fellow passenger says
The passenger, described as a tourist from Serbia on a flight from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, was hospitalized with friction burns but was otherwise in good condition, authorities said.
"Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tire bursting," a fellow passenger told Radio Thessaloniki.
"We immediately realized there had been a decompression. There were screams ... for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door," the woman said. "The masks dropped and there was a strong smell. The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he hadn't taken off his seat belt."
Other passengers near the man helped to pull him in, she said.
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So this is why they tell you to stay bucked up at all times.
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Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:16 am to Witty_Username
Is he sucked out, or blown out?
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:18 am to Witty_Username
Pay me off to the tune of 8-digits, minimum, and I'll go away.
But arent these windows pretty small? How do your head and shoulders get sucked out?
But arent these windows pretty small? How do your head and shoulders get sucked out?
This post was edited on 7/10/26 at 11:19 am
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:18 am to Witty_Username
Claustrophobics already know not to choose the window seat.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:19 am to Witty_Username
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The Boeing 737-800
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:20 am to Witty_Username
Not the first time that it has happened
https://abc13.com/post/graphic-details-come-out-in-fatal-texas-bound-southwest-flight/4691167/
https://abc13.com/post/graphic-details-come-out-in-fatal-texas-bound-southwest-flight/4691167/
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania -- There was a loud bang, and suddenly the Southwest Airlines jet rolled 41 degrees to the left. Smoke began to fill the cabin, and flight attendants rushed row by row to make sure all passengers could get oxygen from their masks.
When flight attendant Rachel Fernheimer got to row 14, she saw a woman still restrained by her lap belt but with her head, torso and arm hanging out a window.
Fernheimer grabbed one of the woman's legs while flight attendant Seanique Mallory grabbed her lower body. They described being unable to bring the woman back in the plane until two male passengers stepped in to help.
The harrowing details from the April fatal flight were released for the first time as the National Transportation Safety Board began a hearing Wednesday into the engine failure on Southwest Flight 1380, which carried 144 passengers and five crew members.
After several failed attempts to reach the pilots by intercom because of the rush of air and noise, Mallory was finally able to relay the situation to Tammie Jo Shults and Darren Ellisor, who had already planned an emergency landing of the crippled Boeing 737-700 in Philadelphia.
"We got (unintelligible words) a window open and somebody - is out the window," Mallory said. According to a transcript, she adds a little later, "Yeah everyone still in their seats, we have people have been helpin' her get in I don't know what her condition is, but the window is completely out."
The flight attendants told investigators at least one of the male passengers put his arm out of the window and wrapped it around the woman's shoulder to help pull her back in. Fernheimer said when she looked out the window, she could see that one of the plane's engines was shattered, and there was blood on the outside of the aircraft.
The passenger in the window seat, Jennifer Riordan, was fatally injured - the first death on a U.S. airline flight since 2009. Eight other passengers including at least one of the men who helped pull Riordan back in the window, suffered minor injuries.
One of the men, an EMT in Texas, and a retired school nurse began CPR on Riordan, but according to interviews with investigators, they said her injuries seemed too severe. Emergency personnel took over once the plane landed, and passengers gathered her belongings to send with them.
The accident was triggered by an engine fan blade that broke off. A piece of engine cover struck and shattered the window next to Riordan, a 43-year-old mother of two from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Wednesday's hearing in Washington focused on design and inspection of fan blades on the engine, made by CFM International, a joint venture of General Electric and France's Safran S.A.
A spokeswoman for CFM said in an emailed statement Wednesday that the company could not comment on an active investigation, but noted that it had "responded aggressively" to complete blade inspections after the fatal flight before an Aug. 31 deadline.
The blade that broke had made about 32,000 flights. An examination indicated that it probably was beginning to suffer cracks from metal fatigue when it was last inspected in 2012, said Mark Habedank, an engineering official at CFM. But the crack was smaller than could be detected by the test used at the time, which used fluorescent dye.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:20 am to Witty_Username
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The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:21 am to tiggerthetooth
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But arent these windows pretty small? How do your head and shoulders get sucked out?
I’m sure the suction in that situation is pretty strong, plus if he’s a little guy it would be conceivable.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:22 am to Witty_Username
That would be one hell of a way to wake up
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:23 am to Witty_Username
Or maybe just don't fly Ryanair? 
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:27 am to Witty_Username
quote:A strong smell you say
there was a strong smell
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:31 am to Witty_Username
Well if your goal on a flight is best chance of surviving catastrophe, you should sit as close to centerline as possible and just aft of the wing spars or all the way aft.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:32 am to Witty_Username
A Ryanair 2008 Boeing 737 according to the NYT.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:34 am to Witty_Username
Could have been me if I was on a budget flight in Europe.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:36 am to Kcrad
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A strong smell you say
Anybody got a spare change of pants?
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:40 am to Archives
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Claustrophobics already know not to choose the window seat.
Amen to this. I have to have a seat on the aisle side or I'd go bonkers. I can't stand being pinned in or feeling trapped
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:42 am to Witty_Username
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Note to self: stop picking the window seat on flights
Posted below, but same thing happened here on SW flight a few years back.
Blade on engine broke, shattered window, and sucked woman half way out.
Only window seat I take is bulkhead and its more so due to the fatties and being squished in.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:44 am to Witty_Username
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Ryanair
There’s your problem.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:45 am to Witty_Username
May be time to upgrade to car style seatbelts with the shoulder strap
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:47 am to Hangover Haven
Blown out, as the high pressure from within the cabin equalizes with the outside air's much lower pressure.
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