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<\/p>\nWhat happened to Ljubisa Karovic is a story of survival people will be talking about for years.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s both horrific and heroic.<\/p>\n
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Ljubisa Karovic\u0301 was injured after he was sucked out of the aircraft.\u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n
It began quietly enough in the beautiful Greek city of Katerini.<\/p>\n
Ljubisa and his wife Svetlana had been staying in the area and had planned to fly to Germany to visit family.<\/p>\n
On the plane, for the first minutes at least, the flight was routine.<\/p>\n
Ljubisa, in seat 11F, was blissfully unaware that the window next to him was about to explode and that he was about to be sucked out of the aircraft.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went through hell but every morning when I awake, I say thank God everything ended well,\u201d Svetlana told 60 Minutes.<\/p>\n
Ljubisa said God, his wife and people on the plane saved him that day.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiracle is that we\u2019re even here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
One of his saviours was Eleni Kyranou.<\/p>\n
On that terrible flight on July 10, it was Ljubisa\u2019s good fortune to have her sitting next to him.<\/p>\n
When all hell erupted, the quick thinking 33-year-old grabbed Ljubisa\u2019s arm as the force of the outside air pressure started pulling him out of the aircraft.<\/p>\n
It was an extraordinary move, but she said doesn\u2019t feel that way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did what I could to help a person, to save a life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it still haunts me, the images and the sound has stayed with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
What happened on board Ryanair 1879 is so extraordinary, if it wasn\u2019t for Sofia Lavou\u2019s mobile phone footage, no one would believe it.<\/p>\n
But she wasn\u2019t filming the horrible moment for notoriety, Sofia was so convinced the plane was about to crash, she wanted her family to know what happened to her in her final moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe put on our oxygen masks, and you suddenly feel like the plane is falling because you feel like you\u2019re falling, like the plane is falling,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Passenger Sofia Lavou filmed the entire ordeal.\u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that’s why we all thought we were going to die, so I needed proof.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I said, if I’m going down, at least I will have some proof of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Safely back on the ground in Katerini, for Ljubisa Karovic, life has never felt more sacred.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s fragile and in pain, but he couldn\u2019t be more grateful to be alive.<\/p>\n
After the mayhem of the last six weeks, it\u2019s only now that what he and his wife Svetlana went through is starting to sink in.<\/p>\n