Wife of Ryanair passenger partially sucked out of plane window recalls incident
Svetlana Maksimovic and her husband Ljubisa Karovic had just settled into a Ryanair flight last week when a loud bang pierced the hum of engines. Within seconds, she saw her 61-year-old husband being sucked through a dislodged cabin window.
In what Greek officials have described as a rare incident, Karovic, sitting in a window seat, was pulled partway out of the plane as his wife and others held on to him on the flight between the Greek city of Thessaloniki and Germany on July 10th.
"I've never heard anything louder in my life before. I just (then) turned around and saw that part of his body had already gone out the window," Maksimovic told Reuters. His head and right arm were hanging out, she said.
Greek media and airport sources said that most likely a piece of engine broke off and smashed a window early in the flight, causing the cabin to decompress.
Ryanair has confirmed that a window dislodged during the flight, and senior executive Eddie Wilson said on...
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