Why a blown-out plane window nearly sucked a passenger outside at 16,000 feet

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A passenger was nearly sucked out of aRyanair planewhen a window failed shortly after takeoff from Thessaloniki, Greece, and experts are explaining how the window could have cracked and broken.

After the frightening ordeal, they also urge flyers to heed important warnings.

“Follow crew directions,�

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“It seems redundant, but always have your seat belt fastened whenever you’re seated.”

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Ryanair confirmed a flight returned safely to Thessaloniki after a passenger window became dislodged during the trip.(iStock)

“With a cracked window and the pressure on the window from cabin pressurization, the window cracked, broke — and then the extreme difference inair pressure from the cabinto the outside creates a strong suction,” the expert said.

“The person was then sucked out.”

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Rapid decompressions are “extremely rare events” at major airlines, Arroyo said, adding that commercial aviation is overall one of the safest modes of transportation today.

“It is mind-boggling that 4.4 billion passengers flew on the world’s airlines in 2023 — 1.8 billion international passengers and 2.6 billion domestic passengers,” he said.“Yet, there were zero accidents.”

View of Ryanair boarding section at airport

A passenger was nearly sucked out of a Ryanair plane when a window failed shortly after takeoff from Thessaloniki, Greece.(iStock)

�not as uncommon asmost passengerswould like to think.”

William J.McGee, senior fellow for aviation and travel at the Washington, D.C.-based American Economic Liberties Project and the author of “Attention All Passengers,” blamed what he called “weak government oversight of aviation safety,” which he said has worsened in recent years.

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“There is still much that we don’t know about what happened on that aircraft,” said McGee.

A Greek hospital official told The Associated Press that the 61-year-old passenger was treated for neck and shoulder injuries and friction burns.

Rapid decompressions are “extremely rare events” at major airlines, an expert said.(iStock)

The passenger was identified as Serbian national Ljubisa Karović.Karović’s wife, Svetlana Grković, told Serbian outlet Nova that she “immediately reacted and grabbed his legs.”

“I thought, ‘If we die, we die together,'” said Grković.

“They put a suitcase against the window, but it was sucked out.”

Grković told Greek outlet ERT that her husbandlost consciousnessthree times, the BBC reported.

“The girl who was sitting next to him was holding him by the hand,” she said.“Three of us were pulling him back inside.The oxygen masks dropped and chaos broke out.

“They put a suitcase against the window, but it was sucked out.”