{"id":792318,"date":"2026-07-10T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:11:10","slug":"man-partly-sucked-out-of-broken-window-on-flight-from-greece-was-pulled-back-by-fellow-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792318\/","title":{"rendered":"Man partly sucked out of broken window on flight from Greece was pulled back by fellow passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged window on a flight from\u00a0Greece<\/a>\u00a0to Germany<\/a> was pulled back inside the aircraft by fellow passengers.<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old passenger suffered neck and shoulder injuries and friction burns, according to a Greek hospital official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly to the media.<\/p>\n

\"FILE<\/p>\n

The man was pulled back inside the aircraft by fellow passengers after a window became dislodged.\u00a0Paul White<\/p>\n

The incident took place on a Saturday flight<\/a> from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to Memmingen, near Munich, operated by Ryanair subsidiary Malta Air.<\/p>\n

Ryanair, Europe\u2019s<\/a> largest budget carrier, said in a statement the flight \u201creturned to Thessaloniki shortly after take off when a passenger window dislodged in-flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Passengers told Greek media that they heard a loud bang, oxygen masks dropped and the plane began to lose altitude.<\/p>\n

One passenger, identified only as Christina, told Thessaloniki radio that some passengers panicked and screamed and that one passenger was partially sucked out of the window.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis whole head, neck, shoulders\u201d were pulled out of the window, she said, adding that those seated near him pulled him back in.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. We heard a sound, I\u2019d describe it like a tyre bursting\u2026 but very loud,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew straight away we lost pressure because we lost altitude. \u2026 Screams, shrieks, shouting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plane landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal, and one passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki, the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A replacement aircraft was later provided to fly the passengers to Germany.<\/p>\n

The National Transportation Safety Board, the US<\/a> federal agency that investigates aviation accidents and other major transportation incidents, said it was notified that the flight turned back because of \u201ca right engine issue and cabin decompression\u201d.<\/p>\n

The agency said it is standing by to assist in the investigation, which will be led by the Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation Committee of the Republic of North Macedonia.<\/p>\n

The aircraft was a\u00a0Boeing\u00a0737-800, which can seat up to 189 passengers. The narrow-body plane was delivered new to Ryanair in 2008, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.<\/p>\n

Flight records indicate that the aircraft climbed past 4570 metres about six minutes after departure and then immediately descended to about 1830 metres \u201cto burn fuel for 30 minutes\u201d before returning to Thessaloniki about an hour after taking off, Flightradar24 said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged window on a flight from\u00a0Greece\u00a0to Germany was pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-792318","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\/792318","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=792318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}