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Bird remains found in Ryanair 737 engine after July window breach

The NTSB said the aircraft’s No 2 engine had four suspected bird strikes reported in the prior 12 months, and it found remains in two of those cases.

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Bird remains were found in the engine of a Ryanair Boeing 737 NG after an incident in July when a passenger was partially sucked through a broken window shortly after take-off from Greece, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said, according to SCMP Economy citing an NTSB preliminary report.

The NTSB said a piece of the engine broke off and smashed the window, and the plane, en route to Germany, lost pressure and made an emergency landing.

The report said four suspected bird strikes to the plane’s No 2 engine were reported by the flight crew in the 12 months before the accident, and bird remains were reportedly found in two of those cases.

The NTSB added that the CFM engine, a joint venture between France’s Safran and U.S.-based General Electric, was inspected in May with no findings, and Boeing and Ryanair declined to comment, while GE and Safran were not immediately available for comment.

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