Video reveals shattered engine after Ryanair passenger was partially sucked out of window
A shoking new video appears to show the shattered engine of the plane where a passenger was sucked out of the window“up to his shoulders“.
Footage shows a smashed plane window after a man was sucked out of at 20,000ft on a Germany-bound Ryanair flight on Friday.
A missing engine blade can be seen in the footage, shared by a Ryanair flight attendant.
The video also shows damage to the outside of the plane, before panning to a smashed window.
It’s thought a part of the plane’s engine broke off in midair and smashed into on of the cabin windows, before a 61-year-old Serbian man was “sucked” from his seat and into the plane’s slipstream.
The man’s wife stopped him being yanked out of the Boeing 737 by gripping onto his legs for five minutes until bystanders rushed in to help.
Passengers screamed and the pilot repeatedly yelled “emergency!” over the speakers, witnesses said.
As soon as the windows broke, the passenger’s wife pinned him down as his head and shoulders were left hanging out of the aircraft’s body.
The terrifying incident unfolded on a Memmingen-bound flight that left Makedonia airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, Friday morning at 5:55am.
Shortly after taking off, passengers heard a deafening bang as the jet’s windows were shattered.
Emergency oxygen masks dropped down and the Serbian man was sucked out of the window as far as his shoulders, witnesses said.
His wife grabbed onto him for about five minutes before fellow passengers jumped in to help tug his body back to safety.
The man’s head and shoulders were “sticking out of the broken window”, a stunned witness told Greek outlet ERT.
Another witness told local media “his head was completely outside of the plane”.
The man was left wounded following the five-minute nightmare suffering burns, but miraculously survived.
He was taken to hospital for treatment with three others.
Shocking footage showed the aftermath of the chaos – with gas masks seen hanging down and a gaping hole where one of the windows once was.
Ryanair told The Sun the flight returned to Thessaloniki shortly after take-off after “a passenger window dislodged inflight”.
The airline added the aircraft landed normally and passengers were taken back to the terminal.
One passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki, the airline said.
After the terrifying ordeal, the pilot was left crying on the tarmac, according to one passenger.
Passenger Sabrina, 37, was sat four rows back from the passenger. She told German outlet Bild: “I thought, that’s it.
“The man was pulled out of the plane by his head, and people ran over to help him.”
“It was a shock for everyone – the man had a head wound and also lost consciousness,” Sabrina said.
She said she “realised it must have been very serious” when the pilot was spotted crying on the tarmac after landing.
Several windows on the plane’s body were cracked open after pieces of the plane’s motor flung off, according to local media.
It has not been confirmed what caused the jet’s engine to break or why debris was launched from it.
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