New footage reveals the horrifying aftermath of a Ryanair flight where a passenger was nearly sucked out through a shattered window — leaving the man clinging to life.
The clip, shared on social media, shows one of the engine’s nacelles — or protective pods — shredded, with an engine blade missing.
The video then pans up to show the blown-out window.
The nightmarish incident began at 20,000 feet on a flight from Greece to Germany, when travelers heard a sudden noise “like a tire bursting,” one passenger told Radio Thessaloniki, according to Agence France Presse.
One of the plane’s windows had been smashed after an engine blade struck it, causing an immediate, dangerous decompression.
“We immediately realized there had been a decompression. There were screams … for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door,” recalled one terrified passenger.
“The masks dropped and there was a strong smell,” the passenger continued.
“The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he hadn’t taken off his seat belt.”
That passenger, a 61-year-old Serbian man, was almost sucked out of the Boeing 737 “up to his shoulders.”
Fellow travelers desperately held onto him until he could be pulled back inside — an account confirmed by Michalis Giannakos, president of the Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees, who described the harrowing rescue effort to reporters.
The Serbian man is currently being treated for friction burns, according to Giannakos.
“A Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen on Friday morning (10 July) returned to Thessaloniki shortly after take-off when a passenger window dislodged inflight,” A Ryanair spokesperson told The Post.
“The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal. One passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki.”
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