Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure • Hacker News Board

Re: Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure

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Post by burnt-resistor » Sun, Jul 12, 2026, 10:08 AM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #29

flutas wrote: post #11

Extremely similar to Southwest flight 1380 which killed a person in the US after they were partially sucked out of a broken window from an engine failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

This would all be solved if the engines were out in front of the plane like podracers.

That wouldn't work because the Cg would be too far forward and the mechanical moment of pylons would be far too great. What needs to happen is proper redesign of the CFM56-7B engine cowl to contain fan, LP, and HP failures.

Re: Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC

clickety_clack wrote: post #22

Well, this isn’t very typical, I’d like to make that point. Look, the windows not supposed to fall off, for a start. These things are built to rigorous aeronautical engineering standards — cardboard’s out, cardboard derivatives, no cellotape, no string. So chance in a million, really. And to be clear, the plane that the window fell off was flown to safety. So there’s nothing out there but birds, air, wind and clouds……

Yes, but still the person was for 2 minutes with their chest out of the window, held by their legs

Re: Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure

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Post by consumer451 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:38 AM UTC

eddyzh wrote: post #74

consumer451 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Child comment if anyone would care to explain which info in the parent comment is incorrect.

The fact that is is ai generated.

So, the lesson is not to mention that in the future.

This was Opus agentic search, that's all. Opus-based agentic search is far superior to Google, but if I said I "googled it," I guess that would be fine?

I stated that openly so that others didn't waste Kw of energy asking the same thing.

Re: Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure

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Post by trolleski » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

pta2002 wrote: post #36

trolleski wrote: post #19

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Ryanair has only ever lost a plane once, due to a bird strike with only some injuries, and they are one of biggest airlines by number of flights (if not the biggest). Turns out plane accidents are expensive, and the reputation loss as well. Don't even need to lose the plane, just the plane being stuck on the ground is expensive (they are also one of the most timely airlines because of this). Really can not afford to…

Forgot to add /s sorry