Ryanair passenger recounts horror of getting sucked halfway out airplane window

The passenger who was partially sucked out of a Ryanair flight when a window shattered shortly after takeoff has spoken out about the horrifying ordeal that left him “half in and out of the plane.”On July 10, Ljubisa Karović, 61, was on board a Ryanair flight from Greece to Germany when he was nearly vacuumed out of the airplane through the blown-out window at his seat, 11F.Karović, a Serbian entrepreneur, told The Guardian that in the nearly 11 days since the near-death experience, it’s the moments before the “chaos, the catastrophe” that keep him awake. “The explosion is what I remember,” Karović said.“It’s the noise before the chaos, the noise that is always there when I close my eyes to sleep.”“They tell me I fainted twice and again inside the plane and that my face was briefly swollen and deformed because of the pressure, the rush of air,” he added.Although the father-of-two suffered serious burns and bruises on his right arm, which span from his armpit to chest, he is counting his lucky stars to be alive.“I am lucky,” Karović told the publication.

“I don’t remember much and my head and neck still hurt, but I am still alive.”Doctors advised Karović that his recovery will be slow and he must be in a neck brace for the next six weeks, by which point they will determine if surgery is necessary.“It could have been the seatbelt, the fact that I was still strapped in,” Karović said of his survival.“But maybe it is fate.”“I believe in God and I thank him every day.”But to Karović’s lawyer Vasilis Tsiaras, the 61-year-old, who was traveling to Germany for his brother’s birthday, is “alive by mistake.”“Ljubisa dipped in and out of death,” Tsiaras said.

“When the cabin lost pressure, he was hurled out of the window from his chest up and immediately lost consciousness.”“At 15,000 feet he ended up with his head and right arm outside the aircraft as it moved at a speed of more than 600km/h [373 mph]....