Michael O'Leary says broken window on Ryanair flight suggests 'foreign object damage'

Passenger partially sucked out window in incident

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 BA.N broken window suggested "foreign object damage."

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.

Last week, the US National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it will lead the investigation into an incident in which a passenger was partly sucked out of a Ryanair Boeing 737's broken window over Greece last week.

The NTSB said Greece had delegated the lead role to the agency in the probe.

Ryanair warned on Monday that its average summer fares looked set to be down on last year amid uncertainty around the Iran war, as it reported after-tax profit for the low-cost airline's April-June quarter fell short of analyst forecasts.

Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers reported an after-tax profit of €538m in the three months that ended June 30 - down from €820m for the equivalent period in 2025 - for its fiscal first quarter through June 30, compared with a forecast of €579m in a company poll of analysts.

Reuters