{"id":370216,"date":"2026-07-22T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=370216"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:46:12","slug":"ryanair-passenger-sucked-out-of-window-only-remembers-the-explosion-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/ryanair-passenger-sucked-out-of-window-only-remembers-the-explosion-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair passenger sucked out of window only remembers ‘the explosion’ | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ljubi\u0161a Karovi\u0107, a Ryanair passenger who was partly sucked out of a plane window mid-flight, says all he remembers is the \u2018explosion\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ljubi\u0161a, 61, was napping when the cabin window next to his seat shattered, jolting him awake and sending his head out the plane.<\/p>\n

He only survived because his wife, Svetlana Grkovi\u0107, clung onto his legs while his head dangled outside the Boeing 737 for five minutes.<\/p>\n

The Serbian aluminium factory owner told The Guardian<\/a> that every one that he remembers from the incident was the noise of the window breaking.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s the noise before the chaos, the noise that’s at all times there once I close my eyes to sleep,\u2019 Ljubi\u0161a said.<\/p>\n

While friction burns now cover his right arm to his chest, Ljubi\u0161a added that he was \u2018lucky\u2019 to be alive.<\/p>\n

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Ljubi\u0161a Karovi\u0107 was saved from being sucked out of the Ryanair plane because of his wife (Picture: Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t remember much and my head and neck still hurt but I’m still alive. It might have been the seatbelt, the indisputable fact that I used to be still strapped in,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018But perhaps it’s fate. I imagine in God and I thank him daily.\u2019<\/p>\n

Flight FR1879 had only been within the air for 10 minutes after leaving Thessaloniki, Greece, when the second engine failed, in accordance with aviation tracker ADS-B Exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An element of the engine crashed into the window by seat 11F while the plane was 20,000ft above North Macedonia.<\/p>\n

The difference in air pressure between the skies and the cabin, called decompression, forced Ljubi\u0161a\u2019s body out the window. <\/p>\n

Svetlana, who was seated three rows behind her husband in 14C, described oxygen masks dangling from above and bottles flying around.<\/p>\n