Memmingen is a German city about an hour and a half drive from Munich. In the south of Germany and north of Lake Constance, the city is in a perfect location to receive flights from those traveling to the Bavarian city or Switzerland. Therefore, it is perfect for low-cost airlines like Ryanair. One of its flights originating in Greece, however, has not arrived after a tremendous scare.
Outside the plane. It is, according to sources who have offered their testimony to media such as Bloomberg either Reutersthe state in which a passenger on a Ryanair flight departing from Thessaloniki (Greece) to Memmingen (Germany) was found during takeoff.
According to the information collected, a man was sucked out of the plane window and half his body was left outside the fuselage. Luckily, the seat belt and the help of the passengers themselves prevented the damage. (he was taken to the hospital with burns) were older.
What has happened? They explain the Greek media as the local version of cnn that during a flight to Germany, passengers heard a sound similar to a tire bursting. Immediately afterwards, a passenger found himself with his head and shoulders outside the plane.
This was caused because a part of an engine broke and hit the window, breaking it instantly. Immediately, the window itself sucked in the passenger who was traveling right in that seat and the cabin depressurized. The emergency led the pilot to make an emergency landing in the city of Thessaloniki (Greece) where the rest of the travelers were transferred on a new plane to the German city.
How did they act? They explain in Flight Radar that the incident occurred when the plane had reached 15,000 feet in altitude in the middle of a takeoff maneuver, they say in The World. That is, the plane at that time exceeded 4,500 meters in altitude. That’s when the accident happened. The plane even had to burn fuel before landing with the cabin depressurized.
When the cabin is depressurized, the oxygen inside the aircraft cabin is lost since at the altitude at which it is flown there is little of it. At that moment, as happened in this case, masks fall from the upper area of the seats and passengers must put them on immediately to breathe normally.
Why was he fired? In order to keep us alive at this altitude, airplanes hermetically seal their cabins. Inside they simulate similar pressure conditions at 1,500 meters highvery far from the real low pressure outside. This pressure difference prevents, for example, a human being by himself can open the door of an airplane while flying because it has to exert a force that is impossible to achieve.
The problem occurs when, as in this case, an external agent breaks a window and the cabin suddenly suffers a sudden change in pressure. In that case, as in that of Aloha Airlines when a man was ejected for not wearing a seat belt.
It is the change in pressure itself that causes the air to leave the plane with such force that it drags the objects in its path. And among the objects there may be a person who does not have a seat belt fastened.
Investigating. Now, the air authorities will have to study why the window broke and, as everything indicates, it was due to the breakage of a part of the engine. The affected aircraft is a Boeing 737-800 which was manufactured in the United States. Ryanair only uses Boeing aircraft, with a fleet of more than 600 aircraft of this type. The North Macedonian authorities will be the ones to lead the investigations since when the accident happened the plane was already in its territory.
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