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Ryanair CEO says probe suggests foreign object damage in window incident

July 20, 2026 6:25 AM EDT

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary speaks at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland March 3, 2026. REUTERS/Kuba Steżycki

July 20 (Reuters) - ‌Ryanair ​CEO ​Michael O'Leary said on Monday that ‌an initial finding from a ⁠probe into an incident in ‌which a passenger ‌was partly sucked out of a Boeing 737's ​broken window suggested "foreign object damage."

"Initial indication would ⁠suggest it looks like a foreign object ​damage to the engine on takeoff at Thessaloniki, ​but we don't ‌have, we can't say that definitively," ⁠O'Leary told analysts while presenting Ryanair's results for the ⁠April-June quarter.

He added that a ​draft report on the incident would be issued in about 28 ‌days, followed by a more detailed ‌report.

(Reporting by Conor Humphries ⁠in Dublin, ‌writing by ​Alessandro Parodi in Gdansk, editing by Matt ‌Scuffham)



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