{"id":544881,"date":"2026-07-11T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:10:08","slug":"eyewitness-photo-shows-broken-window-inside-ryanair-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544881\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness photo shows broken window inside Ryanair plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

A passenger was partially sucked through a dislodged window on a Ryanair Boeing 737 flight shortly after takeoff from Thessaloniki in Greece yesterday, two airport sources said, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing.<\/p>\n

Eyewitness photos from, Despoina Papapavlou, one of the passengers on board the flight, showed the smashed window on board the Ryanair flight.<\/p>\n

Ms Papapavlou was travelling to Germany with a friend when their journey turned into a “terrifying experience on board”.<\/p>\n

Her friend also told Reuters the experience was so traumatic that they would think twice before flying again.<\/p>\n

Reuters verified the interior of the cabin, including the seats and windows, which matched archive images of a Ryanair Boeing 737.<\/p>\n

The broken window also matches reports of an incident in which a passenger was partially sucked through a dislodged window on a Ryanair Boeing 737 flight shortly after takeoff from Thessaloniki in Greece yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corroborating visuals from local media also match the shape and cracks of the broken window.<\/p>\n

The date when the images were taken was confirmed by original file metadata.<\/p>\n

The plane was scheduled to fly from Thessaloniki to Memmingen airport in Germany but returned to Thessaloniki “when a passenger window dislodged inflight,” Ryanair said in a statement.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what led to the broken window.<\/p>\n

“The aircraft landed normally and the passengers returned to the terminal,” Ryanair said.<\/p>\n

The Irish airline said a replacement aircraft was made available to transport the remaining passengers to Memmingen.<\/p>\n

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\nIt is unclear what led to the broken window (Image credit: Despoina Papapavlou)<\/p>\n

The Serbian national who was partially sucked through the window was transferred to the AHEPA University General Hospital in Thessaloniki but did not face life-threatening injuries, the Serbian consulate said, adding that doctors were determining the extent of the injuries.<\/p>\n

Serbian media quoted a passenger telling Radio Thessaloniki that the man’s head and shoulders were outside the aircraft before fellow passengers pulled him back in.<\/p>\n

The US Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the plane was a Boeing 737 NG – the version before the current MAX generation of 737 planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger was partially sucked through a dislodged window on a Ryanair Boeing 737 flight shortly after takeoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-544881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544881","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=544881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}