A 61-year-old passenger was left seriously injured after engine debris shattered a Ryanair window at 20,000 feet, pulling him halfway out before the flight diverted back to Thessaloniki.
Svetlana Grković said she grabbed her husband Ljubiša Karović’s legs immediately and, with another traveler, held him in place as rapid decompression hit and he lost consciousness several times.
Witnesses said passengers donned oxygen masks and feared the plane would crash; footage later showed a shredded engine nacelle with a blade missing.
Ryanair said the aircraft returned after a window dislodged in flight, one passenger received medical help on the ground, and other travelers continued on a replacement plane later that morning.
The incident on the Thessaloniki-to-Memmingen flight is now under investigation.