{"id":542793,"date":"2026-07-10T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542793\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:59:08","slug":"ryanair-passenger-partly-sucked-out-of-plane-as-window-dislodges-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542793\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair passenger partly sucked out of plane as window dislodges \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\">Ryanair<\/a> was forced to make an emergency landing in Greece on Friday after a window on the Boeing Co 737 dislodged soon after take-off, reportedly because it was hit by a piece that came off the engine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A window in the passenger cabin \u201cdislodged in-flight,\u201d the airline said, and several media outlets reported that one person was almost sucked out of the plane after the glass shattered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A passenger told state radio broadcaster ERT she heard a noise \u201clike a tire bursting,\u201d and people started screaming because of the cabin decompression, according to a report by Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window,\u201d she said, according to the report. \u201cFortunately, he hadn\u2019t taken off his seat belt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Breaking Aviation News &amp; Videos account on X.com, citing local media and a hospital union, said a piece detached from an engine and broke the window, and a 61-year-old Serbian man \u201ccame out in the air and was restrained by his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/03\/michael-oleary-on-ryanair-in-2036-profits-of-4bn-fares-at-45-50-a-passenger-and-ill-be-in-a-home-for-the-bewildered\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael O\u2019Leary: \u2018In 10 years\u2019 time, Ryanair fares will be \u20ac45-\u20ac50 and I\u2019ll be in a home for the bewildered\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man is currently hospitalised with friction burns and will undergo a scan to see if he has any fractures, the account said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The account\u2019s unverified video purportedly shows the shattered window on the right side of the fuselage, with oxygen masks dangling from the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The plane had just taken off from Thessaloniki, Greece, and was bound for Memmingen, Germany, when the incident occurred, according to an airline statement. The pilots turned back to Thessaloniki, where one passenger requested and received medical assistance after landing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A replacement aircraft eventually flew the passengers to Germany, Ryanair said in its brief statement. \u2013 Bloomberg <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair was forced to make an emergency landing in Greece on Friday after a window on the Boeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,2917,61,60,1899],"class_list":["post-542793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-greece","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ryanair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542793","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=542793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}