Bird remains found in engine after Ryanair passenger nearly sucked out of window

On Thursday, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) disclosed that bird remains were discovered in the engine of a Ryanair Boeing 737 NG. This incident occurred shortly after take-off from Greece on July 10, when a fragment of the engine broke off, shattering a window and causing a passenger to be partially sucked out. The flight was en route to Germany and had to make an emergency landing due to cabin pressure loss. The NTSB's preliminary findings indicated that the flight crew had reported four suspected bird strikes on the No 2 engine in the year leading up to the incident, with remains found in two cases, though no damage was detected during maintenance. The CFM engine, produced by a collaboration between France's Safran and US-based General Electric, had been inspected in May without any issues. Boeing and Ryanair chose not to comment, while GE and Safran were unavailable for immediate response. Svetlana Grkovic Maksimovic, the passenger's wife, was seen outside a Thessaloniki hospital where her husband received treatment.