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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AVIATION PING!...............
AVIATION PING!...............
“I hate it when that happens..............”
Yep, it really sucks.
😁😂🤣😅😆🙄..........................
Maintenance is important.
On Ryanair....is this a bug or a feature?
It’s better than the in-flight movie..................
It’s better than the in-flight movie..................
On Ryanair you have to pay extra for windows that don’t get dislodged.
Maintenance by competent people is important...............
Can you even imagine something so horrible as that?
It’s not supposed to be something worth discussing.let alone a scenario that should be worried about.
I suspect that will be this passengers’ last flight for quite some time, assuming he even survives.
Hs wife is probably getting a platoon of attorneys offering their services. As for the witnessing passengers. they may want to consider a Greyhound Bus or it’s equivalent for their next trip.
Auric Goldfinger photo....
If he had it to do over again he would have said “No comment” when asked where Pussy Galore was.
Good point. This is Ryanair we’re talking about.
overheard in control tower, “I knew I shouldn’t have turned off seat belt sign”
True—until it becomes an OUT flight movie.
What a RUSH
Sorry for vulgar words in video but this has a lot of realistic scenes of passengers still belted being pulled out with their seats through a hole in the side of the airliner.
From first Final Destination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_avgQJGlE
True story: My grandfather as a young man started to board the interurban (rail transit vehicles before bus travel made them obsolete) and took one step upward and saw an unbearingly pure white light inside. He stopped and covered his eyes. The conductor said: “What’s it gonna be, buddy? Are you getting on or off?” He and some passengers laughed.
My grandfather just got off and the interurban left.
There was soon after a report that the interurban had crashed and rolled down a ravine with deaths and bad injuries. I didn’t get to know my grandfather but it was said he was always level headed, never prone to believing in
anything occult or any New Age stuff.
Note: He lived and then had my mother and her sister and my birth was a few years later. Had he taken the trip I wouldn’t be here to write this.
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