Ryanair passenger partially sucked through airplane window after engine blade smashed into cabin: Report

Ryanair flight broken window/Image: NTSB A Ryanair passenger was partially sucked through a broken aircraft window after a fan blade from the plane's engine broke apart and struck the cabin shortly after takeoff from Greece, a preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found.The July 10 flight to Memmingen, Germany, had been in the air for less than 10 minutes when the engine suffered a major failure, forcing the Boeing 737 to make an emergency landing in Thessaloniki.The passenger, 61-year-old Serbian national Ljubisa Karović, was sitting in seat 11F when the engine debris shattered the window beside him. His head and right shoulder were pulled outside the aircraft, leaving him seriously injured.His wife, Svetlana Grković Maksimović, later told BBC Serbia that she and two other passengers held onto his legs for several minutes while he was being pulled back inside the plane.The NTSB said other passengers managed to pull him back into the cabin.What caused the window to break?According to the report, the aircraft's No. 2 engine began showing signs of trouble about seven and a half minutes after takeoff, when the pilots received a warning indicating...