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Passenger partially sucked out of Ryanair window mid-flight after engine failure, wife recounts
July 14, 2026 at 03:06 PM · Updated 95d ago
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BNBBC News
Wife describes moment husband nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane
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TGThe Guardian
‘If we die, we die together’: wife of Ryanair passenger almost sucked through window speaks
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'If we die, we die together': Wife of man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane speaks of ordeal
(opens the publisher’s site)A woman has described grabbing her husband's legs and holding him inside the aircraft for two minutes after he was nearly sucked out of a Ryanair plane window.
- Svetlana Grković told Serbian outlet Nova that her husband, Ljubisa Karović, was "outside up to his chest" after an engine failure smashed the window, and she held his legs with the help of two passengers.
- Ryanair said in a statement that the flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen returned shortly after takeoff when a "passenger window dislodged," and the aircraft landed normally.
- Thessaloniki airport operator Fraport Greece confirmed that the incident is under investigation by the Hellenic Air and Rail Safety Investigation Authority.
- Grković said her 61-year-old husband remains in hospital in Greece, seriously injured and in shock, with a badly injured hand and burns.
Latest developments
- Grković said her husband was unconscious for two to three minutes as she and another passenger pulled him back inside.
- The aircraft descended 9,000 feet after the window dislodged shortly after takeoff.