Paris
\nA man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight when it \u201cdetached\u201d mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside, witnesses and officials said on Friday.
\nThe passenger, described as a tourist from Serbia on a flight from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, has been hospitalised with friction burns but was otherwise in good condition, authorities said.
\n\u201cMost of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tyre bursting,\u201d a fellow passenger told Radio Thessaloniki.
\n\u201cWe immediately realised there had been a decompression. There were screams… for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door,\u201d the woman said.
\n\u201cThe masks dropped and there was a strong smell. The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he hadn\u2019t taken off his seat belt.\u201d
\nOther passengers near the man helped to pull him in, she said.
\nGreek media reported the incident had occurred over North Macedonia, and said the window had been broken by a piece of debris that detached from one of the plane\u2019s engines.
\nRyanair in a statement said the flight \u201creturned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window detached during the flight. The aircraft landed normally and the passengers returned to the terminal.\u201d
\nA replacement aircraft was made available to transport the remaining passengers to Memmingen, the Irish carrier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paris A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight when it \u201cdetached\u201d mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside, witnesses and officials said on Friday. The passenger, described as a tourist from Serbia on a flight from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n