About this episode

This episode discusses a recent uncontained engine failure on a Ryanair flight and its similarities to a previous incident, along with updates on other aviation news.

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a Ryanair (Malta Air) 737-800 suffers an uncontained engine failure after departing Thessaloniki, Greece, resulting in a shattered cabin window and a passenger partially sucked out of the cabin. We discuss the specifics on this accident and its similarities with Southwest 1380. German investigators release their preliminary report on the Lufthansa 787 that suffered a gear retraction last month in Frankfurt. In a first on Flightradar24, nine 7700 squawks happen near-simultaneously—we dig into what happened at Gatwick airport on Tuesday. And the bidding for easyJet heats up as Apollo Global Management bests Castlelake’s bid for the airline. Helpful links for this week’s episode * Ryanair uncontained engine failure * Southwest 1380 * Lufthansa 787 gear retraction in Frankfurt * Gatwick emergencies * easyJet bidders   Please check back soon for a transcript of this week’s episode.

Topics covered

• aviation accidents
• engine failure
• airline news
• investigations
• emergency squawks
• airline bidding

Keywords

• Ryanair
• engine failure
• Southwest 1380
• Lufthansa
• Gatwick
• easyJet
• aviation news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ryanair, Malta Air, Lufthansa, easyJet, Apollo Global Management, Castlelake

Places: Thessaloniki, Frankfurt, Gatwick

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