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Ryanair CEO says probe suggests foreign object damage in window incident

By Thomson Reuters Jul 20, 2026 | 5:25 AM

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)