Another good reason to keep your belt on.

[Jim H]

I always do.

https://news.sky.com/story/passenger-partially-suc...

[Dave Hedgehog]

you just need to hold on for under a second for the pressure to stabilise in the event of a window blowout

mythbusters confirmed this

[CountyLines]

Tell that to the hanging out the window.

[48k]

This could have been so much worse. Catastrophic engine failure, fan blade detatching punching through the nacelle and debris impacting the fuselage breaking the window.



Video of the damage - https://x.com/_stavmat/status/2075597900868997609

[limmy01]

Seat belt wouldn't do nothing if you were in the window seat, your heads still getting sucked out

[Huzzah]

How much extra do Ryanair charge for opening windows?

[borcy]

Looks like its cracked right at the root of the blade. The damage looks pretty low compared to what might have happened.

[Furbo]

It wasn't long ago that O'Leary was proposing that being sucked off, when Flying Ryanair, was going to be introduced as a cost option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfIY24BErBE

[craig1912]

He was wearing a seat belt

[Jim H]

craig1912 said:

He was wearing a seat belt

Yeah, there is more emerging about this incident.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058lqf/man...

As ever, Juan gives his comprehensive take on things here.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RlIO_91ceoQ&pp=y...

As 48 K has already mentioned, it could have been so much worse.

[Crumpet]

Was this kind of thing common back in the day when engines were nowhere near as reliable?

[Furbo]

Has there been any mention of how much Ryanair charged for the oxygen and whether it was necessary to pre-book?

[Eric Mc]

Crumpet said:

Was this kind of thing common back in the day when engines were nowhere near as reliable?

Earlier jet engines didn't have such large fans - some had none (pure turbojets).

So fan failure was rarer on engines with much smaller fan assemblies at the front - or no fans at all.

The other factor is that there just so many airliners flying around today compared to the 80s and earlier.

When the 727 production line ended, just over 1,800 had been built - and that was a record for a jet airliner at the time.

Now we have production runs for some airliners of over 10,000 - such as the later variant 737s and the Airbus A320 family (all of which feature high bypass large fan turbofan engines).

[s2000db]

Aren’t jet engines designed to contain all the debris from a fan blade failure?
Looks like a design or build failure then..

[Krikkit]

s2000db said:

Aren t jet engines designed to contain all the debris from a fan blade failure?
Looks like a design or build failure then..

Yes, but nothing's perfect. There will be many questions and deep analysis of exactly what's gone on.

[JoshSm]

s2000db said:

Aren t jet engines designed to contain all the debris from a fan blade failure?
Looks like a design or build failure then..

They are, though looking at that the bits were retained from the initial failure, then rattled around and got spat out forward instead through the non armoured part.