Passengers aboard a Ryanair plane bound for Germany have reportedly had to pull a man back inside the aircraft after he was partially sucked out in horrifying, mid-air scenes.<\/p>\n
Witnesses have described seeing a man\u2019s head and shoulders outside of the Boeing 737-800 after a passenger window shattered while the plane was travelling from Thessaloniki, in Greece, to Memmingen, in Germany.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s legs were reportedly held down by nearby passengers before he was able to be pulled back inside. <\/p>\n
The plane was forced to return to Thessaloniki where the man, understood to be a 61-year-old Serbian national, was hospitalised with friction burns.<\/p>\n
Ryanair said the aircraft, which departed just before 6am Friday, local time, \u201creturned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window detached during the flight. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe aircraft landed normally and the passengers returned to the terminal.\u201d<\/p>\n
One passenger told Radio Thessaloniki a loud noise was heard not long into the flight, and that oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as the cabin lost pressure. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tyre bursting,\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe immediately realised there had been a decompression. There were screams … for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe masks dropped and there was a strong smell. The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he hadn\u2019t taken off his seat belt.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said passengers helped to pull him back inside.<\/p>\n
Another witness told Greek broadcaster ERT the man\u2019s \u201chead and shoulders were sticking out of the broken window.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greek media reported the incident had occurred over North Macedonia, and said the window had been broken by a piece of debris that detached from one of the plane\u2019s engines.<\/p>\n
A replacement aircraft was made available to transport the remaining passengers to Memmingen, Ryanair said.<\/p>\n
– with AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers aboard a Ryanair plane bound for Germany have reportedly had to pull a man back inside the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-791316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}