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Disaster● ElevatedJul 10 · Jul 10, 2026, 10:25 AM

Man nearly sucked out of ‘detached’ window on Ryanair flight

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post

A man was nearly sucked out of the window of a Ryanair flight when it “detached” mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside, witnesses and officials said. The passenger, described as a tourist from Serbia on a flight from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, has been hospitalised with friction burns but was otherwise in good condition, authorities said. “Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tyre bursting,” a...

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