Wife who held onto husbands legs to stop him being sucked out of plane window thought If we die, we die together

A wife who grabbed onto her husband’s legs to stop him being sucked out of a broken Ryanair plane window at 20,000 feet has told of the frantic bid to save him – and revealed she thought “If we die, we die together.”Serbian national Ljubiša Karović, 61, was pulled toward the window when it was shattered by engine debris – around 30 minutes into Friday’s early morning flight that had taken off from Thessaloniki, Greece. “The pressure pulled Ljubiša, luckily he was strapped in, but half of his body was sticking out of the plane,” his wife Svetlana Grković told the Serbian outlet Nova.“I reacted immediately and grabbed his legs.I thought ‘If we die, we die together.’ It was horrible.”Grković said her hubby “lost consciousness several times” as the cabin’s pressure dropped. She and a fellow traveler held his legs together as the plane, which was bound for Memmingen, Germany, diverted back to Thessaloniki.Karović, who sells and rents apartments in Greece, was left “seriously injured and in shock,” his wife said.“His hand is particularly badly injured and he’s got burns,” she said.“He’s not able to communicate, he doesn’t remember the whole event.”But she said, “It’s important to me that he’s alive.” Other witnesses said Karović had “blood on his head and kept passing out,” Greek outlet Protothema reported.The plane safely returned to Thessaloniki – but footage showed one of the engine’s nacelles – or protective pods – shredded with an engine blade missing.But as chaos unfolded in the air, some travelers feared the plane would crash.“We were all wearing oxygen masks and didn’t know if we’d make it,” one said.A Ryanair spokesperson told The Post the plane returned to Thessaloniki when a window “dislodged in flight.”One passenger received medical assistance on the ground – while other travelers were put on a replacement aircraft which left the Greek city later that morning.The incid...