Created Tuesday, Dec 16th 2025 18:36Z, last updated Tuesday, Jan 13th 2026 19:59Z
A Malta Air Boeing 737-8 MAX on behalf of Ryanair, registration 9H-VUE performing flight
FR-3505 from Krakow (Poland) to Milan Bergamo (Italy), was climbing through FL080 out of Krakow's runway 25 when a sun visor was torn off and impacted one of the engine start levers causing the engine (Leap) to be shut down. The crew declared PAN PAN, levelled off at FL100 continuing on present heading and attempted an engine restart, which was successful. The crew cancelled PAN PAN and continued the flight to Milan for a safe landing about 90 minutes later.
The aircraft remained on the ground in Milan for about 50 hours, then returned to service.
The BAAI Malta (Bureau of Air Accident Investigation) rated the occurrence an incident and opened an investigation.
On Dec 19th 2025 the BAAI responded to an e-mail by The Aviation Herald explaining, that Poland as state of occurrence decided to not open an investigation. According to Annex 13 ICAO the state of registration is thus permitted to conduct an investigation, which Malta decided to do in the belief, that "valuable safety lessons may be learned from this event, a sentiment underlined by Boeing's significant interest in the matter." Poland has assigned an accredited representative to participate in the investigation.
On Jan 13th 2026 Malta's BAAI released their preliminary report stating:
B737-8200 registered 9H-VUE experienced engine No 2 in-flight shutdown during climb at approximately flight level FL80. The shutdown occurred following the detachment of the sun visor from R1 window, window which subsequently struck the engine start lever No 2.
The engine 2 was successfully restarted, and the flight continued to its planned destination without further events.
Related Flight:
FR3505,
Ryanair News
