A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight after it “detached” mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes; there was a noise, like a tyre bursting,” one passenger said.<\/p>\n
“We immediately realised there had been a decompression.”<\/p>\n
“There were screams … for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door,” the woman said.<\/p>\n
“The masks dropped and there was a strong smell; the head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window.”<\/p>\n
“Fortunately, he hadn’t taken off his seat belt,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said other passengers near the man helped to pull him back in.<\/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’s engines.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Ryanair said the flight “returned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window detached during the flight.”<\/p>\n
“The aircraft landed normally and the passengers returned to the terminal,” it said.<\/p>\n
The Irish airline said a replacement aircraft was made available to transport the remaining passengers to Memmingen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight after it “detached” mid-air en route…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-542707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}