A Boeing 737 fan blade that blew out a passenger window on a Ryanair flight last month has exposed the same failure that killed a US traveller in 2018, and the mandated fix is not required until 2028.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a preliminary report on 13 August that a fan blade in the right engine of a 737-800 broke loose on 10 July, sending fragments through the fuselage after takeoff from Thessaloniki, Greece. The jet was bound for Memmingen, Germany.