Passenger’s Head and Shoulders Hang from Broken Window After He’s Nearly Sucked out of Plane

A plane passenger was almost sucked out of a window that shattered moments after take-off on Friday — with others grabbing hold of him as his “head and shoulders” were left hanging outside.

The traveler — only identified as a 61-year-old Serbian man — was pinned in his seat by fellow passengers as chaos unfolded on the Ryanair flight that left Greece for Germany at 5:55 a.m., CNN Greece reported.

The Boeing 737-800 plane was at an altitude of around 20,000 feet — when travelers heard a noise “like a tire bursting,” one passenger told Radio Thessaloniki, according to Agence France Presse.

They only later found out that a piece of the plane’s engine had broken off and struck the window, causing it to shatter.

“We immediately realised there had been a decompression. There were screams … for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door,” the passenger said. (Read more from “Passenger’s Head and Shoulders Hang from Broken Window After He’s Nearly Sucked out of Plane” HERE)

Photo credit: @RThessaloniki/X