I may be going a bit too sensationalist here with my illustration, but I couldn’t get any image-rendering application to show an airline passenger’s head stuck in a broken-open cabin window. But that’s exactly what happened to one man when a Ryanair Boeing 737 suffered an engine problem that resulted in collateral damage.
The unfortunate passenger had his head sucked into the window opening; his wife quickly pulled him back to safety. The man, a Serbian national, was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the accident.
The airliner was flying at 350 knots at an altitude of 15,000 feet when a right engine fan blade evidently became dislodged. Perhaps that or something else caused the window to break open, resulting in cabin decompression and the unfortunate passenger’s accident.
N.B. My illustration is not meant to recreate what actually happened, just to show broken windows and cabin decompression.
