A Ryanair passenger on board the flight bound for Memmingen, Germany, from Thessaloniki, Greece, has a near-death experience after being sucked out of the broken plane window. He was pulled inside by fellow passengers.
The horrific incident took place on Friday, July 10, when a Ryanair flight’s window dislodged in mid-air. The passenger, a tourist from Serbia, was hospitalized with friction burns, but luckily there were no serious life-threatening injuries.
In an interview with Radio Thessaloniki, a fellow passenger described the situation. He said: “Most of us had fallen asleep, we have closed our eyes. There was a sound, like a tire bursting.”
The witness added: “We immediately realized there had been a decompression. There was screaming … for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door.”
They revealed that the now injured passenger had his head and shoulders outside the window. Fortunately, they hadn’t removed the seat belt, which prevented him from being sucked out until a fellow passenger stepped in and pulled him all the way in.
Unconfirmed videos of the incident circulating on social media show scenes from inside the plane with oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling.
Reports indicate that the window was shattered by a piece of debris that had come loose from one of the plane’s engines. The airline revealed that the flight returned to Thessaloniki shortly after take-off due to the window problem, adding that a replacement aircraft was made available to transport passengers to their destination.
