Quote Originally Posted by O2HeN2 View Post
Yabbut. At cruising speed, air is moving over the wing at over 800FPS (heck, I have a 255gr .45ACP bowling pin load that's slower than that!). This leads to an argument to sit exactly perpendicular to the fan blades because the lower mass, high velocity parts will be affected by the wind to a greater degree and swept back more quickly, and the higher mass, lower velocity parts will have more travel time to the fuselage causing them to be swept back as well.

I'm not suprised that the window that suffered the impact was so far behind the engine.

O2
The cone of dispersion would have some bias towards the rear for a plane in flight, but not for a plane revving its engines for take-off . The nearly identical Southwest incident in 2016 resulted in a fuselage puncture that was nearly perpendicular to the fan unit. There are a lot of variables.