A passenger was nearly sucked head-first out of a cabin window during a Ryanair flight when a window dislodged mid-air, according to reports. The wife of the 61-year-old Serbian national described the terrifying moments when her husband was partially outside the aircraft.
"He was out for maybe two or three minutes," she said, recounting how she and the passenger seated next to him managed to pull him back into the cabin. The man was treated at a Greek hospital for friction burns.
Ryanair confirmed in a statement that its flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, returned shortly after takeoff on Friday morning due to a dislodged passenger window. Flight tracking data indicated the plane descended approximately 9,000 feet (2,700 meters) about 10 minutes into the flight. Passengers reported hearing an explosion-like sound.