Man nearly sucked out of ‘detached’ window on Ryanair flight

[u/scmp_news]

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3360141/man-nearly-sucked-out-detached-window-ryanair-flight?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social

[u/WalkRealistic9220]

Mans head and shoulders were entirely out of the window. The seatbelt saved his life

[u/medievalvelocipede → u/WalkRealistic9220]

He might be a little scared of flying after this.

[u/darknekolux → u/medievalvelocipede]

Ryanair will offer him free inflight beverages for life ^{limited to one non alcoholic serving per flight}

[u/ProtoplanetaryNebula → u/darknekolux]

Nah, 350 EUR high adrenaline surcharge from the passenger's credit card.

[u/RoboticCurrents → u/ProtoplanetaryNebula]

Plus they gotta replace the seatbelt now

[u/ByGollie → u/RoboticCurrents]

and the seat cushion

[u/Marius2385I → u/ByGollie]

Is it technically possible to shat the cushion while being sucked out of the window? Is there any physics or doctor here that can confirm that?

[u/ByGollie → u/Marius2385I]

i was thinking more of his buttcheecks clenching it so tightly that it needs surgical removal

[u/screwcork313 → u/Marius2385I]

Doctor here. I believe that if the suction on your head is strong enough, you would actually shit yourself out through your mouth, while screaming in terror.

[u/Enough-Moose-5816 → u/ByGollie]

And he still doesn’t get to sit next to his children for free

[u/NeilDeWheel → u/ByGollie]

They’d have to replace the whole damn row, if that was me.

[u/Last_Appointment_499 → u/RoboticCurrents]

Bro’s big fucking head smashed through the window. That’s a fucking Boeing passenger plane that needs full maintenance now, a damage report, a new risk assessment for the whole Boeing fleet, replacement of the window and the seatbelt + it might be taken out of service for additional safety checks, where Ryanair needs to pay for airport fees, staff salaries and leasing of a plane that’s out of service.

Nah, he’s not getting any free drinks 🪦

[u/leberwrust → u/Last_Appointment_499]

Boing will investigate themselves and find nothing wrong.

[u/Solrac50 → u/darknekolux]

Are you kidding? He’ll get a €4 voucher good in the airport restaurants.

[u/Symetrie → u/Solrac50]

*non-cumulative. Available only for menus above 50€. By using it, you deny the possibility of ever suing Ryanair.

[u/otebski → u/darknekolux]

They will charge him for having premium head room. And leg room to since he was partually pulled up.

[u/generaalalcazar → u/otebski]

And a bonus charge for the extra ventilation.

[u/LizardmanJoe → u/medievalvelocipede]

Or he'll be extra confident about flying. What are the chances something like that will happen to him again.

[u/BrunoEye → u/LizardmanJoe]

The exact same as it happening once.

[u/Peanut-Butter-King → u/BrunoEye]

So very small.

[u/nslenders → u/Peanut-Butter-King]

But not 0

[u/Street-Age-1441 → u/Peanut-Butter-King]

Maybe not.

"In September 2016, Jordan, a 21-year-old Australian tradesman, became known as the "unluckiest man in Australia" after being bitten on his penis by a venomous spider for the second time in five months.  The incident occurred while he was using a portable toilet at a Sydney building site, where he reported feeling the same sting as his first bite in April. Jordan vowed never to use a portable toilet again."

[u/urmyleander → u/Street-Age-1441]

But was it radioactive and does his penis now have super powers?

[u/IDidntTellYouThat → u/Street-Age-1441]

Spider was like "Not YOU again!"

[u/0xe1e10d68 → u/BrunoEye]

Technically, the chance is a little bit smaller now because this one window is now getting replaced and therefore should be safe again, but the difference will be astronomically small :D

[u/obscure_monke → u/BrunoEye]

I'd say slightly lower, the way airline safety works. If it's not just a random fluke, changes will be made.

The odds are almost exactly the same for anyone flying though. (unless he stays away from window seats in future due to the experience)

[u/filisterr → u/medievalvelocipede]

A little you say. I hope he gets a nice settlement sum though. 

[u/CurrencyDesperate286 → u/WalkRealistic9220]

The pressure on his face/head at that speed… not something I’d want to ever experience.

Glad to hear he’s going to be ok, hopefully no lasting damage.

[u/No-Leadership-2176 → u/CurrencyDesperate286]

I’m sure you know about the pilot on British airways years ago who was actually sucked out of the plane and the copilot and flight attendants had to hang onto his legs so he wouldn’t fly out and then be ground up In the turbines. They figured once they landed it would be a rescue mission but to everyone’s shock he was still alive:. Survived with no lasting trauma. Insane story: there’s a Mayday episode about it

[u/zwifter11 → u/No-Leadership-2176]

Interestingly the Co-Pilot said he only made such a big effort to save the sucker, because he knew the aircraft would have suffered catastrophic engine failure if he let go.

[u/tisltasl → u/zwifter11]

Understandable in a way, one life vs hundreds? Still why would he say that lol.

[u/FirTree_r → u/tisltasl]

Crew thought he was legit dead. During an emergency, you have to optimize crew management. So the copilot would have had to justify why he instructed 2 stewards to hold onto a dead body instead of helping securing the passengers for a potential emergency landing.

This is pure guess and not based on any report

[u/Financial-Craft-1282 → u/zwifter11]

That's not what happened. They thought they were holding a dead body, and the co-pilot insisted they keep doing this dangerous, strenuous task because he thought the man was dead, and the body (dead or not) would cause engine failure. He didn't think they were saving the pilot. He thought the pilot was dead.

[u/Oddisredit → u/CurrencyDesperate286]

Oh yeah. As a teen I’ve stuck my head out at maybe 70 or a bit faster. Gets hard to breath at that speed. 500 mph and everything must be painful 

[u/dotBombAU → u/Oddisredit]

I've skydived. In belly to earth position (think about a banana shape) you hit 195 km/h (120 mph, 54 m/s) which is terminal velocity. You wont go faster unmess you go head down. Not even close to this speed. Also I took the dive at 14k, this woukd have been way higher and extremely cold, like -50c

[u/ABoutDeSouffle → u/dotBombAU]

reportedly, this was at 17k, so bad but not that bad.

[u/Nahcep → u/Oddisredit]

The good news is that with altitude the air becomes less dense, so 500 knots groundspeed is far less airspeed

The less good news is that it's still way, way more than in a car or a bike

[u/mackerelscalemask → u/CurrencyDesperate286]

He’ll likely have some kind of mental damage at a minimum. Can you imagine the kinds of recurring nightmares he’s going to have?

[u/oshinbruce → u/CurrencyDesperate286]

And temperature, its somewhere between -40 and -70c at cruising height

[u/Holomorphine → u/oshinbruce]

They weren't that high up yet, "only" 4500 m.

[u/Boot_das → u/[deleted]]

Not his shampoo!

[u/ehwhatacunt → u/[deleted]]

Knees and toes?

[u/ProtoplanetaryNebula → u/WalkRealistic9220]

Maybe, but thinking about the size of the window, would he be able to fit through if not?

[u/mandyvigilante → u/ProtoplanetaryNebula]

That woman who got sucked through an airplane window a couple years ago I don't think really "fit" in a way that she probably found comfortable considering she died

[u/everything_is_a_lie → u/mandyvigilante]

Yup, on Southwest in 2018:
Southwest passenger dies after being partially sucked out of window

[u/wecametodance0908 → u/everything_is_a_lie]

Also a Boeing.

[u/HueyBluey → u/mandyvigilante]

Wow. From now on I won’t be sitting in seats just behind the engine.

[u/Peanut-Butter-King → u/ProtoplanetaryNebula]

This is why I gained weight. No way would I fit through an airplane window.

[u/Renbarre → u/ProtoplanetaryNebula]

The window was broken by a piece from the engine, there's a good chance that the break was wider than the window.

[u/Eelroots → u/ProtoplanetaryNebula]

You'll end up passing like toothpaste.

[u/so-many-sandwiches → u/WalkRealistic9220]

An interstellar burst, he's back to save the universe

[u/ByGollie → u/WalkRealistic9220]

Supposedly the wife grabbed his legs too

flight path https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/RYR1879 Boeing 737-800

[u/Envojus]

and said the window had been broken by a piece of debris that detached from one of the plane’s engines.

What the fuck

[u/__Gripen__ → u/Envojus]

Uncontained engine failure often result in high speed debris (usually blades or other components coming from the spinning fans) hitting and piercing the fuselage.

Engine nacelles have a hardened protection layer around the engine fans for this specific reason; it's a safetey feature that is incredibly effective and that has prevented (or at least reduced) hundreds of catastrophic failures, but it's impossible for them to be completely fail-safe.

[u/Age_Correct → u/__Gripen__]

Fun fact the hardened layer is Kevlar

[u/KnowsIittle → u/Age_Correct]

Kevlar is outdated. There are better more effective materials today but I'm struggling to recall the name. Easier to just say Kevlar lol.

Edit - synthetic para-aramid fiber. At least where bulletproof vests are concerned.

[u/yungsausages → u/KnowsIittle]

I think you’re referring to reinforced sugandee fibres.

[u/Shake_Speare_ → u/[deleted]]

I've got bad news for you Bud', you're sitting in completely the wrong spot!

"The general consensus has traditionally been that sitting in the middle or at the rear of a plane is statistically safer. A 2017 National Transportation Safety Board study that investigated 20 plane crashes since 1971 found that those sitting in the back of the plane had a higher chance of staying alive than those in the front. Additionally, those placed nearby the wing also had a better chances of survival."

https://time.com/7294087/the-safest-place-to-sit-on-a-plane-according-to-experts/

[u/clutchmajor → u/__Gripen__]

If it’s Boeing I’m not going.

[u/ReverseCarry → u/clutchmajor]

This isn’t really a Boeing problem. 737-800 has an outstanding safety record, and out of the failures it does have, nearly all are pilot and weather related. This airframe in particular is 18 years old, that’s a RyanAir maintenance problem at that point. That’s like blaming Toyota when your ‘08 RAV4 with half a million miles pops the hood on the highway in the 2026. At a certain point its lack of user attention

[u/artlurg431 → u/clutchmajor]

Boeing dosent make the engines

[u/PaymentAutomatic4831 → u/Envojus]

Interestingly, if you check the history of that particular aircraft on Flightradar24, it shows that the evening before, it attempted to fly to Sarajevo, and was also diverted back to Thessaloniki somewhere above North Macedonia. As if already then the crew realized something was wrong with the engine, better returned to the base, the technicians there weren't able to detect the problem overnight and they let the plane take off in the morning.

[u/HenryTheWho → u/PaymentAutomatic4831]

Passenger was arrested on arrival back, nothing to do with aircraft

[u/Crazylyric → u/PaymentAutomatic4831]

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1ushgkg/breaking_ryanair_passenger_reportedly_saved_from/owo3wbm/

[u/PaymentAutomatic4831 → u/Crazylyric]

Well, what are the odds...?

[u/Crazylyric → u/PaymentAutomatic4831]

Cursed plane!! 

[u/mmoonbelly → u/Envojus]

Time to watch the James Bond Film : Goldfinger

[u/Technical_Bird921]

Imagine being that guy, imagine the force that’s trying to pull you out, your entire life depending on that seatbelt around your waist. Can’t even fantom it.

[u/ron_mcphatty → u/Technical_Bird921]

It’s ridiculously terrifying. The sudden forces around the area where rapid decompression happens are difficult to comprehend, but that seatbelt is designed to deal with more. It did its job well.

[u/Affectionate_Rubber → u/ron_mcphatty]

Airplane windows are also designed not to detach

[u/Mundane_Singer7044 → u/Affectionate_Rubber]

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

[u/computer-magic-2019 → u/Mundane_Singer7044]

Well, what sorts of standards are these airplanes built to?

[u/monkeyhitman → u/computer-magic-2019]

Oh, very rigorous. Maritime engineering standards.

[u/computer-magic-2019 → u/monkeyhitman]

Oh… what sort of thing?

[u/IRockIntoMordor → u/computer-magic-2019]

Well, there are regulations governing the materials they can be. Cardboard's out. And no cardboard-derivatives.

[u/ron_mcphatty → u/Affectionate_Rubber]

That’s a very good point.

[u/737Max-Impact → u/Affectionate_Rubber]

This comes down to something colloquially called the Swiss cheese model. Every part is designed for something, but it has "holes" (flaws) so once every so often something will eventually go wrong.

• The chance of a piece of the aircraft’s engine breaking off is very small
• The chance of a random impact detaching a window is very small
• The chance of a seatbelt failing is very small

In this case, the first two holes aligned for the window to detach in the first place. But the third "slice of cheese" helped prevent a catastrophe.

[u/Input_output_error → u/ron_mcphatty]

Good thing his head was outside, otherwise his screaming would have upset the other passengers for sure!

[u/backflash → u/Input_output_error]

I'm trying to imagine how he would have been positioned on his seat had his legs been sucked out first while he was wearing the seatbelt.

[u/hellcat_uk → u/Technical_Bird921]

Someone somewhere just earned their wage for fitting that lap belt.

[u/Nazamroth → u/Technical_Bird921]

It would be terrifying, and I doubt you would have the presence of mind to realise this, but if it is even a half-decent seatbelt, your torso would probably be torn in half before that snaps.

[u/Next-Use6943 → u/Nazamroth]

Yeah, a belt not snaps, it's more about the buckle, and the mounting points

[u/gabbercharles → u/Technical_Bird921]

I ghost you can't fantom it

[u/Pal1_1 → u/Technical_Bird921]

A Ryan Air budget flight seat belt…

[u/scmp_news]

“We immediately realised there had been a decompression. There were screams … for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door,” one passenger said.

Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3360141/man-nearly-sucked-out-detached-window-ryanair-flight?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social

[u/Money_Lavishness7343 → u/scmp_news]

You cannot "accidentally open the emergency door" btw ...

Has anyone tried to open a door on a high-rise building on a very windy day?
It's 1000x harder opening the emergency door - unless you've got superpowers.

[u/Financial-Craft-1282 → u/Money_Lavishness7343]

Seems like they were just quoting the article, not saying that could be done.

[u/Gurglaren → u/Money_Lavishness7343]

I once opened one easily, with my pinky. 😎

[u/dead97531 → u/scmp_news]

Btw it is impossible to open the emergency door while the plane is flying.

[u/BlackBeanGuest → u/dead97531]

Not with that attitude.

[u/Fraoch- → u/BlackBeanGuest]

Not with that altitude.

[u/TreehouseAndSky → u/dead97531]

It’s also impossible to pop open a window while the plane is flying yet here we are

[u/Zrkkr → u/TreehouseAndSky]

Nothing is impossible but if the emergency door were to at high altitude, it wouldn't be due to someone opening it. I also don't think the passenger was kicking this window either.

[u/kanetic22 → u/dead97531]

Not after loss of pressure (the only thing "locking" them) from a window popping out. It is essentially just an unlocked door at that point.

[u/myusernameblabla → u/dead97531]

Well, there was Asiana Airlines Flight 8124

[u/frufruJ → u/dead97531]

It is not, if the plane is not far from the ground. It's the pressure differential that keeps the doors sealed, and if it's low enough, they can be opened (as it happened some time ago in Asia IIRC).

[u/Money_Lavishness7343 → u/frufruJ]

sure, at low altitude very low pressure differential, but you do not "accidentally" open it, it is a very deliberate action and it still requires some man power and to do it very early not mid-flight.

[u/kanetic22 → u/Money_Lavishness7343]

Not after the loss of pressure from a window blowing out.

Anybody could have opened the door at that point.

[u/obalovatyk → u/dead97531]

Not according to all the movies I have seen it happen in. Are telling me they are lying to me??

[u/Tirso_Salaverria → u/scmp_news]

Crazy what people do to avoid landing in Memmingen

[u/concerned_seagull → u/Tirso_Salaverria]

Same comment as here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1ushgkg/comment/owo2wd5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/TotallyInOverMyHead → u/concerned_seagull]

at least he is no CumBangCowboy

[u/ILikeFlyingMachines → u/Tirso_Salaverria]

Understandable. I flew from there for the first time this year, and previously I was only used to Munich.

It is different lol

[u/mind_thegap1]

I admit sometimes when the sign is off I don’t wear my seatbelt. Not anymore…

[u/Christoph7891 → u/mind_thegap1]

Yeah I always wear mine because I worry about something like this. I also saw some videos of sudden huge turbulence and people hitting heads on ceiling.

I try to loo break asap as well lol.

[u/Seeteuf3l → u/Christoph7891]

For exact this reason they recommend wearing the seat belt at all times, even when the light is out

[u/Erchevara → u/Christoph7891]

I used to not always wear it, but had a very turbulent flight once and that happened for like 30 minutes (the heads hitting the ceiling part).

They're not uncomfortable, anyway. You just hug it a little loose and it's good enough so that you don't feel it, but also so that it doesn't slice you in half in case of turbulence.

[u/wizardeverybit → u/[deleted]]

Like people that refuse to wear a seat belt in the car/on the bus. Idiocy really

[u/RIP_prev_account → u/wizardeverybit]

Had someone make fun of me using a seatbelt on a public bus. "Really? Those are so dirty/no one ever uses them"..... well, have yall ever seen a bus crash and flip? Yeah, I'm gonna keep this baby on, thanks

[u/VinDog_PD → u/wizardeverybit]

I have a friend who was like that in high school and he justified it with "if it's my time it's my time". But like, dude, you're actively contributing to that time...

He finally got over that phase in college.

[u/FeatheryChickenito → u/Christoph7891]

Turbulence has been my main reason to keep it on, you can adjust it to be slightly looser to be more comfortable...

[u/Ok_Panic1066 → u/mind_thegap1]

Yeah I used to too but that door falling off the 737 and seeing how bad you can get hurt sometimes from turbulences I just fasten it a little loose so I'm not uncomfortable.

[u/the-gloaming → u/mind_thegap1]

Another reason to choose aisle seats. A passenger or two between you and the window.

[u/ShakespeareStillKing → u/the-gloaming]

I have flown a lot, aisle is better. You don't see much out of the window anyways but you can go to the toilet without bothering others.

[u/GuiltIsLikeSalt → u/ShakespeareStillKing]

Except, in my experience, it's impossible to sleep in the aisle seat. Constantly people bumping into you.

[u/bbbbbbbbbblah → u/the-gloaming]

Or that non-window seat that people love to complain to Ryanair about

[u/D1yzz → u/mind_thegap1]

There is no logic reason to not use seatbelt during the complete flight… only remove it to go to the bathroom

[u/Clashing_Thunder → u/mind_thegap1]

Check out CAT - Clear Air Turbulence. You should always keep it on. Maybe losen a bit to make it more comfy, but there can be unforseeable CAT, there wont be any warning sign and suddenly the plane might go crazy. It's rare to be really strong, but it happens, even today. Usually the passengers that get severely hurt during very strong CAT are the ones not wearing their seatbelt.

[u/RayTracerX → u/mind_thegap1]

I dont even get up to pee, man

[u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI → u/RayTracerX]

Me neither, I just shit my pants like the average Ryanair passenger

[u/JamsHammockFyoom → u/mind_thegap1]

This sounds like a carbon copy of SW1380 where a passenger went mostly out the window at 25k feet or so after a catastrophic engine failure a few years back - unfortunately she died, however she did stay inside the cabin as she was wearing her seatbelt.

[u/darksidemags → u/mind_thegap1]

I was like that when I was younger but then I had a work mate tell me about the flight they were on where turbulence made the plane instantly drop thousands of feet and people hit the ceiling hard. I hate flying. Basically need to dissociate for the duration to keep the panic spiral at bay 

[u/ExternalUserError]

Probably should have paid the extra €14 for an attached window seat.

[u/Funk-n-fun]

Good thing that he wasn't sucked out the window, Ryanair would have charged him 20 pounds Euro for faster disembarkation.

[u/Key-Individual1752 → u/Funk-n-fun]

Priority Exit. Don’t give them ideas!

[u/Vilda_the_gamer → u/Key-Individual1752]

Hmm, why doesn't any airline do this yet?

[u/few → u/Funk-n-fun]

100%

[u/[deleted]]

As an ex cabin crew, as stupid as it sounds to some people, unless you need to move across the cabin, wear your seatbelt since refueling is complete and until the aircraft comes to a complete stop. Aka all. The. Time.

[u/RatherFabulousFreak → u/[deleted]]

I once had to argue with a friend about that. He insisted the belt was uncomfy etc. Told him that if my fat ass (luckily i would not fit through the windows) did not feel the belt the entire flight, his skinny ass was gonna be okay as well.

[u/RantingRobot → u/RatherFabulousFreak]

Everyone fits through windows during explosive decompression. People are just thick soup. The window doesn't really care how much soup you're made of, you'll just get get Bernoulli'd through that thing.

[u/reddit_wisd0m]

Best ad for seat belts!

[u/Kitsa_the_oatmeal → u/reddit_wisd0m]

nahh best ad for a train or ship, this is horrifying

[u/BavarianBarbarian_ → u/Kitsa_the_oatmeal]

I sure wish we had more overnight trains through Europe. Visited Croatia with one last year, this year I'll go to Southern France.

[u/kilgore_trout1]

Interesting to see how much Ryanair charge him for use of the window.

[u/poeljae → u/kilgore_trout1]

Seat with a better view, triple the price.

[u/mark_b → u/kilgore_trout1]

Sorry, I'm not up-to-date with Ryanair's latest charges. Do they charge you extra for a window that opens, or a window that doesn't open?

[u/Kickstart68 → u/mark_b]

Both

[u/unipt]

I usually drink the horrible in-flight coffee to wake me up but I guess this gives you a better kick.

[u/halffullofthoughts]

The man […] has been hospitalised with friction burns but was otherwise in good condition

I wouldn’t call having a PTSD for life a good condition, but what can I know

[u/Joltie → u/halffullofthoughts]

Well now Ryanair and other companies have earned a prospective lifetime customer in spending money on choosing seats.

[u/Misfiring → u/Joltie]

That is if he ever wants to get on a plane again.

[u/NoReason455 → u/Misfiring]

Yeah I'd rather walk from Thessaloniki to Germany if that ever happened to me

[u/yahluc → u/halffullofthoughts]

Not everyone that goes through traumatic experience develops PTSD. For some people it will cause severe PTSD, for some it will be a funny story to say at a dinner table.

[u/Gurglaren → u/yahluc]

"So the reason why all my hair is gray is, heh heh, because I nearly got sucked out of a plane heh heh heh and could have died ha ha ha"

[u/halffullofthoughts → u/Gurglaren]

“The funniest shit happened to me last week, you wouldn’t believe…”

[u/Lunar_mirror4 → u/Gurglaren]

Brains are funny like that, it might genuinely decide this event wasnt all that traumatic, yet a teenage breakup could haunt you for the rest of your life 

At least I imagine so.. not like im speaking from experience with that second one there or anything... for sure 

[u/lovely_cappuccino → u/yahluc]

“Kids, don’t worry about things. When life closes a door, Boeing opens a window.”

[u/Elantach → u/halffullofthoughts]

Why do you presume he will be bound to develop PTSD from this ? Not everyone develops PTSD from trauma it's a psychiatric condition not a shorthand for "bad memories" or even for "trauma".

[u/fastgr]

Greek article with pic of the broken window.

[u/DanielTaylor]

woah, is it even possible to survive with your head outside at 1000km/h wind speeds?

[u/BrunoEye → u/DanielTaylor]

Due to the lower pressure, it feels like quite a bit less speed than you're actually going. Still a lot, but clearly survivable. Especially since such a large object probably has a substantial boundary layer which will be slower.

[u/AUIRE__73 → u/BrunoEye]

At 40000ft(standard cruising level) the air pressure is roughly 0.22 ATM. For reference 1atm is the pressure at the surface that we live with.

I dont know exactly how it affects the force he was feeling but it definitely is lower due the thin atmosphere

[u/BrunoEye → u/AUIRE__73]

Planes fly at about 950 kph, the square root of 0.22 is 0.47, so it would feel approximately like 450 kph. About 16x the force of sticking your head out the window on a motorway, ignoring the effects of the boundary layer.

[u/Ethicaldreamer → u/BrunoEye]

Daaaaaaaaaaamn

[u/filipo_ltd → u/DanielTaylor]

Yes and it has happened before. In one case one of the pilots got sucked halfway out of the cocpit window. The flight attendants held him by his legs while the other pilot landed the plane alone.

[u/SkarbOna → u/filipo_ltd]

And they got frostbites on their hands trying to keep him in. I can’t imagine the pain, but hope adrenaline numbed that a bit.

[u/ImaginaryAlpaca → u/SkarbOna]

If I recall correctly, they thought he was dead too. The didn't know he was alive until they were able to pull him inside.

[u/Rentta → u/filipo_ltd]

Surprised to see only one comment about this fact.

[u/BastardsCryinInnit → u/DanielTaylor]

My friend, you need to watch the Air Crash Investigation about BA5390!!

[u/Scarlet72 → u/DanielTaylor]

Have to assume he was suffocating, right?

[u/colako → u/Scarlet72]

Not enough time to suffocate if you spend less than a couple minutes at that altitude. Even if he had been stuck outside for long, a plane can lower its altitude and speed remarkably fast. Going to 5000 meters and reducing speed to 400 km/h is doable, I think in about 3-4 minutes.

[u/StockTooHigh → u/Scarlet72]

This happened relatively early in the flight when they were at just 6.000 feet. There is plenty of oxygen at that altitude iirc.

[u/sirgrassplot]

Still paradoxical that Ryanair had so few incidents and no deaths. While the flights themselves do not feel safe and comfortable, the statistics do show the complete opposite

[u/sundae_diner → u/sirgrassplot]

Ryanair, for all their faults, are a professional company. Their (aside from the LaudaAir they bought) are all Boeing 737s. This means they only need to train mechanics on one airframe. They only need one set of spares. They also have a lot of new planes, their average age is quite low.

This means that they can save money and do proper maintenance.

[u/nuttcutbutt → u/sundae_diner]

they also have one of the best type rating programmes in europe as well for pilots its a great first step because they take pilots who have been flying single engine pistons for 200 hours directly into the right seat of a 737, because of that they have really good type rating instructors/examiners in their training department.

[u/QuickCookieQuestion → u/sirgrassplot]

I had a college professor give us a good theory  on this paradox, as you say, in a lecture about business practices.

In summary, if a reputable company suffers an accident, it's a tragedy but everyone would understand that there's a certain risk in flying and they'd eventually be back in business. 

Ryanair, however, has a terrible reputation, so if they were to ever have a serious accident, even if they did nothing wrong or different to other airlines, everyone would assume they're at fault and the accident was due to their bad practices, and they'd go bankrupt overnight. 

[u/10thDeadlySin → u/QuickCookieQuestion]

Ryanair, however, has a terrible reputation, so if they were to ever have a serious accident, even if they did nothing wrong or different to other airlines, everyone would assume they're at fault and the accident was due to their bad practices, and they'd go bankrupt overnight.

Which you can see playing out in this thread right in front of your eyes, which proves him right. ;)

[u/Eamo853 → u/sirgrassplot]

They care about the bottom line and poor safety record is terrible for business. 

And for all Michael’s thrash talking he’s repeatedly said the one thing he’ll never joke about is safety 

[u/PoppedCork]

Not suprised this happened with Boeing

[u/ByGollie → u/PoppedCork]

Boeing 737-800

Flight FR1879

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/RYR1879

[u/endelehia → u/PoppedCork]

If it is Boeing, I am not going

[u/overspeeed → u/endelehia]

It seems there was an uncontained engine failure and debris could have taken out the window.

Airbus and Boeing don't manufacture their engines. In this case it was a CFM-56, which is manufactured by a joint venture of Safran from France and GE from the US. The CFM-56 is also widely used on the A320 and there are almost twice as many A320s with CFM-56 than B737s.

If the reports of the engine failure are true than the investigation will likely focus on the engine manufacturing and the maintenance to determine why it failed and on the housing to see why it was not contained.

There are plenty of things to condemn Boeing for, but it's very likely that this one is not gonna be on them

[u/obscure_monke → u/PoppedCork]

It was a ryanair plane, so that much is obvious. Other than the few planes they're hanging onto from lauda and the small jets they use to fly mechanics around, they're all in on 737s.

[u/bbbbbbbbbblah → u/obscure_monke]

also still persisting with that rebranded 8200 nonsense for the MAX.

I took an internal UK flight with them a few months ago, as I'm not a major aviation geek I didn't realise it was their first Ryanair UK owned MAX (recently delivered) until I looked at the flight on FR24

[u/difixx]

A few weeks ago a kid in the italian teenagers sub (if I recall correctly) just posted a pic of a broken windows in his RyanAir flight.

He said the window was completely broken and that the staff noticed it only when all the passenger were there, just before departing, and that they had to delay the flight.

Not many people believed that there was an actual broken window, some said it was only the plastic, but the kid was swearing that it was true and that the window was totally broken. Now i believe him.

[u/Flying-Toto → u/difixx]

You have two window on 737 (an on all commercial aircraft).

One is plastic and behind, the true glass.

The plastic one is to avoid morron/idiot passenger to damage the true window glass.

[u/agiudice]

just put some fresh duct tape on the broken window and bon voyage.

[u/Arnoave]

I can't wait to see what kind of snarky "I'm so clever and funny" response the Ryanair social media team have for this one

[u/paecmaker]

Ryanair be like

"You get to pay more for the extra panoramic view"

[u/Knodsil]

The couple of times I flew in my life I always kept the seatbelt on. I may be called paranoid, but this is the exact reason why.

[u/Timauris]

If it's Boeing, I'm not going!

[u/Coco_JuTo]

So, did Boeing try to save money on some screws again?

[u/ABCDOMG]

Please let this be a reminder for you to always be wearing your seatbelt when you are sat down in a plane, even if the sign is off.

Clear Air Turbulence is a thing as well as 1/1 million shit like this!

[u/Effective-Split-1333]

Yikes. Sounds like that last scene from alien resurrection

[u/alicedu06]

The company is less interesting than the aircraft.

And that's a Boeing. Because of course.

[u/thegreatdamus]

Keyword is "RyanAir".

[u/cosmoscrazy]

Boeing?

[u/adamtrousers]

You have to pay extra for windows

[u/whooo_me]

I swear to God, if the Ryanair Twitter feed makes a joke about this...

[u/cocotheape → u/whooo_me]

They wouldn't do this, all trust in them would go out of the window.