In a rare occurrence, a Ryanair flight to Munich went through a panicked situation when a window on the plane broke, causing the cabin to depressurize and oxygen masks to fall out at around 16,000 feet.
Following this mid-flight incident, the pilots took a decision to return to Macedonia Airport, and a passenger sitting next to the broken window was taken to AHEPA Hospital with a neck injury.
Further visuals and local report suggested that the damage to the fan blades and Nacelle of No.2 (right side) CFM56 engine of the Ryanair/Malta Air Boeing 737-800NG plane (9H-QEU) occurred during the flight FR1879 that was operating from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany.
As a passenger on the flight reported to Radio Thessaloniki, during the flight a loud noise was heard and a window of the aircraft broke.
According to the complaint, the cabin was depressurized, fellow passengers held the passenger who was sitting next to the broken window while the masks fell off.
The pilot immediately changed course and returned to "Macedonia" airport, where all the aircraft's passengers remain at this time.
According to information, the passenger who was sitting next to the broken window was picked up by the EKAB ambulance and taken to the "AHEPA" hospital with a neck injury.
One passenger, identified only as Christina, told Thessaloniki radio that some passengers panicked and screamed and that one passenger was partially sucked out of the window.
“His whole head, neck, shoulders” were pulled out of the window, she said, adding that those seated near him pulled him back in.
The aircraft made a safe landing and passengers returned to the terminal, and one passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki, the airline said in a statement.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was notified that the flight turned back because of “a right engine issue and cabin decompression.”
From the pages of history, the ill-famous tragic incident occurred on April 17, 2018, aboard Southwest Airlines Flight 1380. Flying at 32,000 feet, the left engine experienced an uncontained failure, causing a piece of shrapnel to smash through the window next to passenger Jennifer Riordan.
The sudden drop in cabin pressure caused her to be partially pulled out of the aircraft. Despite fellow passengers’ frantic efforts to pull her back inside, she suffered fatal blunt force trauma and passed away.
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