Vol FR1879 de Ryanair: què se sap del motor, la finestra trencada i el passatger arrossegat cap a fora

Now to some terrifying moments on a jetliner over Greece when a passenger was almost sucked out of a window. Ryanair says the flight was headed from Greece to Germany when a cabin window detached. Sources to the ABC News passengers had to hold onto the man's feet for about five minutes to keep him in the plane. A man gets sucked out of a Boeing 737 and lives to talk about it. What happened? This just happened. Ryan air was operating 737-800 out of Festinal Leaky Greece and on its way to Germany. I think it was a Memengen Germany was where their destination was and it's 16,000 feet. One of the passenger windows let's go. Why did the passenger window blow out? Because the right engine was failing as the right engine was coming apart. Components from that right engine pierced apparently one of the passenger windows. And so all those windows or pressure windows, it broke both of the outer pressure pains of the window and the window blew out. At that point, a passenger, a 61 year old Serbian gentleman seated in the window seat was partially sucked out of the airplane. His head and shoulders made it all the way out of the airplane. His wife, seated next to him, grabbed him by the belt. Some able-bodied passengers grabbed his legs. They were able to haul him back in the airplane. All of the oxygen masks came down at the same time. The airplane was depressurizing. The crew up front had their hands full with a pressurization loss with an engine failure and a crippled 737. All right, there is so much to get to. in this. But that's the nuts and bolts of what happened. I want to show you the picture here now after they landed of all the masks that are dropped, but more specifically the window that blew out. Now, I'll give you the details about what you see and what you don't see with the window and what's really important. So let's roll the video right now. We're going down, taking a look at there's the seat. You can see the window right there. All right. He's going to write about here. I'm going to stop it right there.

Now, you can see that the oxygen mask came down. That was the seat that gentlemen was seated in. He had his seat belt fasten and that saved his life. Friends, how many times have you heard me say, keep your seat belt fasten regardless of whether the sign is on or off? You never know when something's going to happen and it might just save your life. Now, is this a common occurrence? Well, Bang in there. It's more common than you might think and I'm going to tell you a story here at the end about a time this happened before in the dramatic circumstances under which it happened. But hang on there for that. Alright, take a look at this window. Look at this. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Let's bring it down a little bit. You can see kind of the ragged edges right here of the inner pain of acrylic glass. Everything is gone in there. All the pressure panels, both of them, plus the other pressure barrier, plus the scratch paint, all gone that generally got sucked out there, everybody grabbed them. They were able to pull them back in, but that window didn't cause the rest of the frame around it, and the air frame itself to come apart. Why? Take a look at the structure of the window. It's rounded in each one of its four corners. Hmm. Is that by designers?

for aesthetics. It's by design back in the 1960s I believe it was. There was an airplane called the comet and it might have been the late 50s but it was. The comet was an airplane that flew overseas. It was a European airplane primarily but it had square windows and in those square windows there were square like this piece of paper is right right up in the corner of the square window. It started to create little fatigue cracks. Why? Because the 90 degree angle at which that corner was, you know, engineered. And they didn't notice the little hairline cracks, but in a lot of the windows around the airplane, these little hairline cracks, and after they pressurized the airplane just a few too many times, with all those little cracks, many of the windows gave way and the entire airframe came apart. I think there was one, maybe. two or three accidents where the entire airplane came apart in flight with passengers in it. That called, it was an emergency. They called for complete redesign and a focus on what happened when they recreated the accident. They realized that these little fatigue cracks were causing the windows to come apart. Ever since then, every window on every airliner is rounded in the corner. It's strengthens the window and it prevents those little hairline cracks. You didn't know that, but now you know. Alright, that's why the window is rounded in each one of its corners. How did this window detach? The windows will not normally detach by themselves. There are a number of different structural pains I'll explain in a minute. This was hit by something coming from the outside. That's the only way one of these windows, or I suppose it could be hit by something from the inside. But again, you would have to have a lot of force to break out these windows. But an engine coming apart? Certainly a piece of the Nacell on the outside of the engine coming off and hitting the side of the airplane. Yeah, that would do it if one of the turbines came off of the engine they haven't done the post mortem on the engine failure yet But if one of the turbines came and punctured that window that would be enough to cause all of the pressure on the inside to then blow out that window and whoever's seated next to that thing is gonna go for a ride He perceived belt fastens so you don't go for a complete right now horrifying with that be all right now the next question is

is this common? Well, it's extremely rare to be quite honest. It doesn't happen very often and when it does, it makes front page news just like this story right here. But the windows are rounded in the corner as I explained. Each one of those windows, the pressure on the windows about 8 to 9 PSI pounds per square inch on the window. So when you add it all up, it's about a thousand pounds of pressure on each one of those windows. Now, how are the windows structured? That's really important, because that's gonna save the day and that's why you don't hear about this hardly ever at all. Now, let me roll you up here to cross section of the windows. Take a look at this. There's some frames, there's the double or there's the aircraft scan. You can see the arrow pointing that. Then there's another double around the inside. Those are just frames to hold the window in place. Then there's the window frame itself. That's to make it look pretty. But as you notice from the picture, I just showed you. The window frame was intact. It did not give way. I'll show you another picture here, or schematic in a minute, shows you how many bolts are in that window frame. I mean, it's securely bolted in there. We'd have to be catastrophic failure for that thing to come apart. But there's an outer pain, there's an inner pain, and then there's a little thing that's called a scratch pain.

And actually, I think there ends up being four pains altogether. What are the, alright, number one is this. There is the outer pain, that's the structural pain, it's made out of acrylic. It's the one that holds all of the pressure of the airplane interior inside the airplane. Remember, the airplane is pressurizing from the inside out. You would think, if a window were to give way, it would blow in. It blows out. Why? Because all the pressures on the inside of the airplane, that's so you can breathe at altitude. So the airplane is being pressurized on the inside that outer pain is what holds all that pressure in. Now inside of it is a middle pain. It's the exact same. type of pain, but it's there as a backup to the outer pain. If for some reason that outer pain should fail, the middle pain then will take the structural load of the pressure that is now upon it, right? But it just sits there kind of as a stand-by weighton to be called on in an emergency. There's another pain and I did a short video on this, I don't know about a year. You're in a half ago where I said hey you're sitting in the past your seat and you look and you notice a little bit of hole at the bottom of the window and it's anything hmm I wonder if that's it every window and you look over the window next door and then one across the way and every single window on the airplane has a little pin hole and it'll drilled all the way through it You wonder is that there for a reason it's absolutely there for a reason it's called a bleed hole And that bleed hole is there to help relieve or alleviate the pressure differential if that outer pain should depart the airplane so that immediately the second pain doesn't go as well. So that little that little bleed hole that it equalizes the pressure on both sides and it also makes it so that you don't

have fogging on the inside of the window, right? You can't moisture in there and have the windows on the airplane to be fogged up all the time. That little hole, relieving it's alleviation. Now, there's another structure on the inside. It's called the scratch pain. Why is that there? It's there to keep you from putting something in that little bit of hole. So you can't get to the pain that's got the hole in it. So that you don't stick something in it and trust me folks. You say, well, I would never do that. Well, somebody would, right? Somebody's kid would stick gum in it or you'd get a tooth pick and you go, hey, I wonder if it fits in that hole and you break it off in the hole. Right? You're sitting on an airplane for hours on end and you get bored and you would try to stick something in that hole. So there's a scratch pain so you can scratch the window and you don't scratch the... either one of those structural pains or that bleed hole so that it does its job. And there's a lot of thought that went into the different pains of glass on a passenger window. And that's there for your safety. It's extremely rare that one of them would come apart now. I tease you at just a minute ago I said, has this ever happened before? Well, in fact it has and it happened in a very dramatic way. This is back in June 10th of 1990. It was a Bach 1-11. It was British Airways Flight 53-90. It was from Birmingham to Malaga Spain. Now you can pronounce it, Malaga, Malaga, I suppose you could. I've been there several times. I've heard it pronounced every different way. Let me know in the comments what you think the proper pronunciation is. You should be of ML-AGA Spain. All right, but they're on their way in a 17,300 feet and let me show you the picture actually. Let me show you one more thing because I'm reference that frame. All right, before we get to this look at the frame. Here's a schematic of the frame. Now there's the outer window over in the left side, but look at how this frame is bolted in. There's like one, two, three, four all the way around. They're like eight or ten bolts holding that frame in. So it would have to be a catastrophic failure.

for that frame to let loose, but you can see the outer pain and then the inner pain and then there's a retainer and then there's that scratch pains on the inside of all that. All of that is designed to hold the window together. All right, back to BA 5390. It's on his way from Birmingham to Spain. It's a 17,300 feet when the captain's window blows out, it blows out in flight and the captain, Timothy Lancaster, is partially sucked out of the airplane very similar to this. Half his body ends up out of the airplane. What happened? Why didn't he get sucked completely out? Because he too had his seat belt on. Now is the requirement for me as a captain and my first officer. Anybody else in the cockpit? We must have our seat belts fastened at all times. Why? because of something like this. So when I first got hired as an airline pilot, this had just happened the year before I got hired. And everybody was talking about that story. And I thought, okay, I'm keeping that seat belt fast no matter what. It might just save your life someday. So folks, just hang on to that thought. So it saved the captain from being ejected from the airplane completely. But now the air stream on the outside of the airplane is so forceful, 250 to 300 knots. It just pins in against the side of the airplane. Why didn't he get bejected all the way out of the airplane? It wasn't just because of the seatbelt. It was because of the fast action of a flight attendant who just happened to be coming into the cockpit at the same time. First, a flight attendant, Nigel Ogden.

It just arrived in the cockpit when this whole thing took place the airplane had to pressurize so he didn't get sucked out But he grabs a hold of the captain's belt and he grabs a hold of his legs and he holds onto him The first officer is busy flying the airplane it was complete bedlimp up in that cockpit. Let me show you a picture of the Bach 1-11 that's the airplane. All right. It looks like an old DC 9 or a fat You know, MD 11. But it's kind of a squadty little airplane but it engines in the back. But there's the front of the airplane with the captain's window on his side window. All right. That's a buck 11 11. Now, here is the actual view of the cockpit of the windows that blew out. So you got a window in the front that blew out. See that's all gone. And you got the one on the side. Now I don't know if this side window is pulled back. I think it's been pulled back. I think the captain got pulled sucked out of this front window if I'm not mistaken about that but those of you who know more about this incident let me know in the comments I think you got sucked out that front window and then you just got to cut got plastered against the front of the airplane as they're trying to hold onto him so he doesn't get pulled out of the rest of the airplane so Nigel Ogden grabs the hold of him holds on him holds on him for 20 minutes to the point where he's just completely exhausted. They get some other people to come up to the cockpit in the meantime to relieve Nigel, holding onto this captain. But the the air stream is so forceful that they can't pull him in. What's going on in the cockpit? That front window is gone. It's bedlam in the cockpit. You can't hear yourself. Think you can't even You can't even gather your own thoughts. So the first officer who's talking on the radio probably nobody could hear him and he couldn't hear anybody because of the noise in the cockpit. I'm here to tell you if you blow out a window like that every little bit of dirt and dust and piece of paper boom it's like an explosion up in the cockpit. The first thing is the first officer is going to be rubbing his eyes trying to get all the dirt out of his eyes trying to get his bearings on what happened. He's got to get his oxygen mask on, right? They're fortunately they were only at 17,000 feet. So the oxygen thing wasn't all that

urgent right, but you gotta get the airplane back down again. He can only slow it down so much and so they're holding onto the captain right what happened to the captain the captain returned to duty five months later. This is a minor miracle already returned to full duty five months later, he had some injuries however, he had broken his right arm, I think he broke his wrist and a thumb. There was some other injuries, he was obviously a shock for a little while. This was the one that was the most surprising injury. He suffered frostbite. It's that cold up at Altitude and he was outside the airplane for that long that he suffered some frostbite, which I think is understandable now, but take a look at this picture one more time. Do you see all this right up here in the upper right hand side? of the picture. I think that's blood. I think that's blood. I think this guy was hanging out. I don't know if he was hanging out over the top of the window or the bottom of the window, whatever it was or the side, wherever he was. I think that that's that was some blood up on the side of the aircraft. I don't know that for sure, but it sure looks like that to me Unbelievable that they were able to land the airplane safely everybody on board was safe the captain was rushed to the hospital now. What do we know about the passenger that was Partly sucked out of this Ryan air flight well all we know is that he doesn't have any life threatening injuries. He might

Be fine. I don't think so. I think that it's gonna take a while to recover from something like this But we know he's gonna make a full recovery and everything with the reports I read so far is that this was not a life threatening injury due to the fast reaction of his wife and the able-bodied passengers near a vibe that we're able to grab a hold of him and I'm gonna say two things one where you're seat belt the number two guys Where up belt okay? Where on a leather belt might just save your life someday. I hope this never happens to you or it never happens to another passenger. Well, you know more about the structure of airplane passenger windows, then you probably wanted to and you probably know more about the history of people that have gotten partially sucked out of airplanes than you wanted to. But that's what happened just yesterday as this British airways flight was on its way to Germany returned back to Greece. Everybody was fine. They landed safely and they gentlemen was taken away to the hospital. Well, now you know, I'm Captain Steve. Fly safe.