{"id":525372,"date":"2026-07-14T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:49:09","slug":"ryanair-flight-emergency-wife-describes-battle-to-save-husband-sucked-out-plane-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525372\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair flight emergency: Wife describes battle to save husband sucked out plane window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Serbian couple Ljubi\u0161a Karovi\u0107 and Svetlana Grkovi\u0107 were on board a Ryanair flight when a window next to them blew out. Photo \/ Ljubi\u0161a Karovi\u0107 and Svetlana Grkovi\u0107\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Serbian couple Ljubi\u0161a Karovi\u0107 and Svetlana Grkovi\u0107 were on board a Ryanair flight when a window next to them blew out. Photo \/ Ljubi\u0161a Karovi\u0107 and Svetlana Grkovi\u0107<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking afterwards, Grkovi\u0107 described the incident, which occurred as the couple were returning home from a holiday in Greece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was as if a part of the engine broke off and hit the window next to which my husband Ljubi\u0161a was sitting,\u201d she told Serbian broadcaster Nova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI reacted immediately and grabbed his legs. I thought: \u2018If we die, we die together.\u2019 It was horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">In the chaos, some passengers rushed to help the couple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Grkovi\u0107 said two people helped almost immediately, helping her stop her husband being dragged from the plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey came to help me. I remember a man and a woman. He helped us a great deal, both me and Ljubi\u0161a,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">They managed to hold on to her husband\u2019s legs for about five minutes before other passengers rushed to help pull him back into the aircraft. By that stage, oxygen masks had already deployed throughout the cabin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">A passenger on the plane told Greek broadcaster ERT that the man\u2019s \u201chead and shoulders were sticking out of the broken window\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Karovi\u0107 remains in hospital receiving treatment for his injuries and is reportedly unable to speak, the Daily Mail  reported. He is understood to have suffered severe friction burns and remains in a state of significant shock after the ordeal.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A picture of the exterior of the plane. Photo \/ Aviationbrk\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A picture of the exterior of the plane. Photo \/ Aviationbrk<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Investigators believe the incident was triggered when a fan blade inside the aircraft\u2019s right-side engine apparently broke loose, Greek outlet Protothema  reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Ryanair said the flight returned to the airport after take-off after the passenger window \u201cdislodged in-flight\u201d and one passenger received medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The airline said one pregnant passenger was also taken to hospital as a precaution but discharged, Protothema  reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serbian couple Ljubi\u0161a Karovi\u0107 and Svetlana Grkovi\u0107 were on board a Ryanair flight when a window next to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,31844,5837,682,138,12857,1359,11557,15974,70,10109,79,111,139,69,3111,15026,19336,11590,43044,1324,111693,17435,61,1842,14451,1354],"class_list":["post-525372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-aircraft","tag-battle","tag-being","tag-business","tag-completely","tag-described","tag-describes","tag-emergency","tag-flight","tag-husband","tag-midair","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-plane","tag-ryanair","tag-save","tag-shattered","tag-stop","tag-sucked","tag-terrifying","tag-to","tag-wife","tag-window","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}