Ryanair Scare
Passenger Nearly Sucked out of Broken Window Midair!!!
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A Ryanair passenger was nearly sucked out of a window when it broke during a flight … with folks rushing to pull him back inside the cabin after his head and shoulders dangled outside … and there’s video of the aftermath.
This is almost impossible, but it actually happened. A Malta Air Boeing 737-800 operating Ryanair flight FR1879 from Thessaloniki to Memmingen returned safely to Greece after a cabin window shattered during the climb through FL150, triggering a cabin decompression and the… pic.twitter.com/IS9cLDnyXx
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The horrifying incident took place on a Friday flight from Greece to Germany, CNN Greece reported. Passengers reportedly heard a loud bang … and that’s when the 60-year-old passenger from Serbia was nearly sucked into the sky.
His head and shoulders were reportedly sucked out the window … but he was still wearing his seatbelt, and that gave passengers enough time to get to him and pull him back inside.
The man, a tourist from Serbia, was hospitalized with friction burns.
Ryanair says the plane “returned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window detached during the flight. The aircraft landed normally and the passengers returned to the terminal.”
Video from after landing shows the shattered window … and oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling.
Reports say the loud bang was caused by a piece of the engine breaking off and hitting the window, ripping it from the plane.
Ryanair says it transported the rest of the passengers to their destination on a replacement aircraft without incident.