A passenger’s head was sucked out of the broken window of a Ryanair flight from Greece to Germany on July 10, and officials are attributing the incident to a bird strike. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board released a report Thursday that one of the engine’s blades on flight FR1879 broke off, and a bird’s remains were found in the ruins. “Engine fragments breached the fuselage and the cabin depressurized,” the NTSB report stated, along with the identification of the broken window remains throughout the plane. The report also noted that the Boeing 737 had been involved in four other bird strikes in the past 12 months, with bird remains found deep in the engine. Ljubisa Karović, 61, was seated in 11F when his head was sucked out of the plane and left hanging 16,000 feet in the air. His wife and other passengers saved him. Karović sustained serious injuries. “I don’t remember much, and my head and neck still hurt, but I am still alive,” he said about the ordeal.
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