Engine debris shattered Ryanair window, pulling passenger out, NTSB says
- Flight crews had recorded four suspected bird strikes involving the same engine during the previous year, with bird remains found after two of them.
- United States air safety investigators have found evidence of metal fatigue in an engine fan blade that fractured during a Ryanair flight last month, sending debris into the cabin and shattering a window where a passenger was partially pulled into the opening.
- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a preliminary report that about 37 percent of the fracture surface on the failed blade showed features consistent with fatigue.
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- Flight crews had recorded four suspected bird strikes involving the same engine during the previous year, with bird remains found after two of them.
- United States air safety investigators have found evidence of metal fatigue in an engine fan blade that fractured during a Ryanair flight last month, sending debris into the cabin and shattering a window where a passenger was partially pulled into the opening.
- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a preliminary report that about 37 percent of the fracture surface on the failed blade showed features consistent with fatigue.
Sources: Al Jazeera