A jet engine fan blade cut into a plane and caused a passenger to be partially sucked out of a window, the NTSB says
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/13/europe/ntsb-ryanair-prelim-report
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/13/europe/ntsb-ryanair-prelim-report
30 Comments
shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 37 pts · 26d
Boeing of course
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 18 pts · 25d
It was an 18-year-old plane. Also the engines aren’t made by Boeing, the engine in question was made by CFM, a joint venture between GE and Safran.
Evidence of fatigue cracking was found on the damaged fan blade, which means this was a maintenance failure.
aGlassDarkly@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 25d
Totally read this as “GE and Satan” the first time and thought “oh, well, that makes sense then.”
Madison420@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Would it be fun to point out GE owned 50% interest in Boeing business jets (the venture that made the 737) prior to 2020?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
Not if you're trying to defend a shitty company that murdered nearly 400 people.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
No one is defending either both are war profiteers that would have gone bankrupt years ago without MiC grift.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 25d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 25d
If it's Boeing, I'm not going.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 26d
He was only mostly sucked.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 26d
Just teasing.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 26d
Everything you need to know right there. Cut-rate businesses cut corners on maintenance and quality control.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 26d
Ryanair is one of the safest airlines in the world. 600 in fleet, 0 fatalities since beginning in 1985.
Mihies@programming.dev · 7 pts · 25d
Yep, they operate only handful of different airplanes and thus their maintenance is much cheaper, but that's not to say they are doing poor maintenance 🤷 as OP suggested
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 25d
They had Boeing design a bespoke 737 variant to simplify operations and maximise throughput.
axh@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 25d
Boeing, that's what you need to know. As far as I know, no whistleblower died while testifying against Ryanair's quality control. Boeing on the other hand...
scholar@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 25d
Boeing don't make the engines; this was a CFM-56 engine failure.
axh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 25d
Neither does Ryanair.
My friend works in the quality control on the production line. They build the same thing for multiple clients. And they have different quality standards for each of them. Some parts would be considered faulty by one of them but good by another, so my friend needs to move faulty elements to the batch for the client that will accept it.
Of course the client with the highest quality standard is charged a lot more than the client with the lowest standard. Maybe Boeing didn't make the engine, but they definitely negotiated the price of it.
Of course I don't know if something similar happens in the aviation.
I flown Ryanair multiple times, and I had to put my legs in the language compartment, because human physiology seems too expensive for Ryanair, but I'm annoyed seeing how quickly the entire internet forgot the Boeing's quality issues, so I'm here to spread doubts.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 25d
I'm 6'3 and just gave up on flying years ago. Those seats are either getting closer or I'm getting taller.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 25d
Lieutenant Dan could use some of those extra legs you got there.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 5 pts · 25d
It’s an 18-year-old plane. This was a maintenance failure. Evidence of fatigue cracking on the damaged fan blade that was missed at the last engine maintenance. Nothing to do with Boeing.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 25d
Technically, the passenger was partially blown out. Cabins are pressurized, the outer atmosphere is not a vacuum.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 25d
When you suck in your breath, your lungs don't form a vacuum either. "Sucking" refers to the movement of air across a pressure differential through a rigid opening, and thus fits this scenario.
If the passenger was blown out, it would imply that the pressure was the cause of the opening, which is not the case here.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 25d
Technically you sound exactly correct. And that would be the best kind of correct.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 25d
Yes! You're brilliant, here are another 12 forms of sucking according to the various sources I have available to give you answers from. But first let's take two minutes to create an account with us!....
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 25d
I'm not a plane doctor, but I think something went wrong with this plane.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
It's highly unusual
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 25d
Wait, it threw a fan blade, out of the nacelle?!
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 24d
How many fucking bailouts have we given Boeing again? They seem to get more incompetent with each one.
Edit: Boeing didn't make engines
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 24d
Boeing doesn't make engines.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 24d
Oh ok I should have finished reading the article, thanks
reddig33@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 26d
Same incident