This guy is safe............
Posted on 07/10/2026 11:25:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Ryainair passenger was partially sucked out of a window on Friday morning.
The plane took off from Thessaloniki, Greece, on Friday morning en route to Germany when a 61-year-old passenger was sucked out of a broken window.
Passengers had to pull the man back into the plane.
The passenger is currently hospitalized.
Oxygen masks dropped down in the cabin as the plane returned to Greece and safely landed.
“Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen on Friday morning (10 July) returned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window dislodged inflight. The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal,” Ryanair said in a statement to ABC News.
WATCH:
ABC News reported:
A passenger window on a Ryanair flight dislodged shortly after takeoff from Thessaloniki, Greece, partially sucking out a passenger on Friday.
A 61-year-old male passenger in the window seat was partially sucked out, according to a Greek doctor who treated the passenger on the tarmac once the plane safely landed.
The doctor said the passenger’s wife was holding her husband’s feet to stop him from being completely sucked out of the aircraft. The passenger is currently in the hospital.
The aircraft declared an emergency with oxygen masks dropping in the cabin. The plane returned to Thessaloniki, landing safely on Friday morning, according to a senior Greek aviation official.
The official told ABC News that the Ryanair Boeing 737 suffered an uncontained engine failure. Parts from the engine hit the plane, damaging the fuselage and breaking a passenger window, according to the official.
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The words “aircraft” and “dislodged” should never have to be used in the same sentence.
Passenger Partially Sucked Out of Broken Window shouldn’t be either!..................
I wonder if we will see an attorney file a lawsuit for this guy ... similar to the old Greyhound Bus Lines lawsuit... where a Greydog passenger somehow (>?) got their arse stuck out of the lavatory window (I never figured out the engineering of this, ha!)
the lawyer sued seeking mucho $$$ for public embarrassment...
the court denied it. Explaining that nobody who could see the spectacle from the outside / highway ... could see the poor “victim’s” face (on the inside of the lav) .... Without the public’s ability to identify the (apparently involuntary) mooner, ... no $$$ nada dineros.
I have heard that in an airplane there are two things you cannot have enough of —
Fuel and Altitude
I would like to add a third — Glue on the windows.
There is an extra fee for interior seating.
Yeah, but it’ll make a heck of a bar story.
“So there I was, hundreds of feet off the ground sucked halfway out of the jet window....staring death in the face......”
Bound to be good for a few beers. 😂
Here’s some more info:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-sucked-out-ryanair-plane-window-greece-flight-witness-says/
None of the stories tell the altitude.............
BBC:
Tracking data shows the plane was in the air for about 10 minutes when it abruptly descended 9,000ft (2,700m), with passengers telling local media they heard “some kind of explosion”.
RyanAir - Europe’s JetBlue
“the Ryanair Boeing 737 suffered an uncontained engine failure. Parts from the engine hit the plane”
Once again, more than likely maintenance issues......or lack of to be more exact.
This guy is safe............
"FIT THROUGH OUR WINDOW AND YOU FLY FOR FREE!"
;^)
The Air Safety Board will have to write those Thessalonians a sternly worded letter.
Maybe even TWO!
Meanwhile this silly company is getting bitchy on twitter about American soccer.
Luckily for him it apparently happened in the climb, well below cruise altitude (likely in the mid-30-thousands).
So there was less differential pressure pulling him through the rupture in the window.
And it’s very likely he had his seat belt on - also helping, along with someone holding on to his feet.
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