Man partially sucked out of broken Ryanair plane window during flight, fellow passenger says
Source: CBS News
Thessaloniki, Greece A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight when it "detached" midair en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside, a witness told Greek media on Friday.
The passenger, described as a tourist from Serbia on a flight from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, was hospitalized with friction burns but was otherwise in good condition, authorities said.
"Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tire bursting," a fellow passenger told Radio Thessaloniki.
"We immediately realized there had been a decompression. There were screams ... for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door," the woman said. "The masks dropped and there was a strong smell. The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he hadn't taken off his seat belt." Other passengers near the man helped to pull him in, she said.
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Kali
(57,008 posts)If there was ever a perfect message to keep your seat belt on there it is!
Ray Bruns
(7,064 posts)johnp3907
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Ray Bruns
(7,064 posts)littlemissmartypants
(35,907 posts)Colbert Questionert...
"Window or aisle? "
paleotn
(23,236 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(27,584 posts)Hmmm. Looks like someone we know who is also obsessed with gold.
I wonder how well those Qatari windows are sealed

DownriverDem
(7,045 posts)why I don't fly any more.
LudwigPastorius
(15,337 posts)Snackshack
(2,612 posts)At altitude a plane is like a balloon and if it pops, it is very violent like Hawaiian flight 243 or it can be very slow and just as deadly as the flight Payne Stewart took.
twodogsbarking
(20,028 posts)Hope everyone is ok.