Ryanair window that passenger was partly sucked out of was broken by engine debris, report finds

The Serbian entrepreneur Ljubisa Karović, sitting in seat 11F, had his head and right arm sucked out of the broken window in the incident. Photograph: National Transportation Safety Board/AP

Broken engine parts were responsible for shattering a window on a Ryanair plane, causing a passenger to be partly sucked out mid-flight in July, US investigators have said.

A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found an engine fan blade broke off shortly after takeoff on the 10 July flight from Greece to Germany shattering the window and damaging the fuselage.