Fellow Passengers Pull Back Man Partly Sucked Out of Broken Window on a Flight From Greece
A 61-year-old passenger suffered neck and shoulder injuries after a window dislodged in flight, and the plane returned to Thessaloniki, Ryanair said.
- On Friday, passengers on a Malta Air flight from Thessaloniki to Germany saved a man partially sucked out of a dislodged window shortly after takeoff. Fellow passengers pulled him back inside the aircraft.
- The Boeing 737, operated by Ryanair subsidiary Malta Air, returned to Thessaloniki shortly after departure when a passenger window dislodged in-flight. The aircraft had climbed past 15,000 feet before descending to 6,000 feet to burn fuel for 30 minutes.
- Passenger Christina told Radio Thessaloniki that the cabin experienced a loud sound "like a tire bursting" followed by decompression. Some passengers panicked and screamed as the plane lost altitude.
- The 61-year-old traveler received medical assistance after the plane landed safely in Thessaloniki. He suffered neck and shoulder injuries and friction burns, while the Incident Investigation Committee of the Republic of North Macedonia began investigating.
- Shye Gilad, a former airline pilot teaching at Georgetown University, emphasized that keeping seatbelts fastened is a "difference maker" during cabin breaches. Such rapid decompression incidents are rare but underscore critical safety protocols.
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Video shows passenger who had body partially sucked by plane window after the incident. A flight from Ryanair was forced to make an emergency landing at the airport of Thessalonica, Greece, on Friday (10) after a window break and make a passenger partially sucked out of the plane. The man was rescued and received medical attention. ✅ Follow the international news channel of the g1 at WhatsApp Passenger says that man sucked during flight was head…
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THESSALONIKI (Greece), July 11 — A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight when it “detached” mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside, witnesses and officials said Friday.The passenger, described as a tourist from Serbia on a flight from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, has been hospitalised with friction burns but was otherwise in good condition, authorities said.“Most of us had…
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