Please tell me someone intentionally opened the door. I had not previously thought getting blown out of a plane was a likely possibility.

An engine failed mid-flight, the casing failed to contain the fan blades as they are designed to do, and one went through a passenger window.

Again, Swiss cheese model. This is some Final Destination shit, not something anyone not an aircraft designer should spend time worrying about.

The engine shredded itself midflight and blew a hole in the fuselage next to her seat. The other passengers held her and prevented her from being completely sucked out but she still died from her injuries.

Also someone on the ground crew on New Year’s Eve pulled into the engine, though they apparently disregarded multiple warnings about clearance distance from the engine even after nearly getting knocked over by exhaust. I’m not sure how that sort of thing (disregarding multiple warnings & a near miss) can be prevented:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/25/alabama-airp...

Wasn’t that one ruled a suicide?

That was a different one, in Texas more recently. I have to wonder if the person was influenced in their choice of method by the relatively recent news of another dying the same way. In the end that of things, the method, probably doesn’t matter much.

988

Dialing that, at least in the US, will get help to anyone who needs it