Wife of Ryanair passenger sucked out of dislodged window recalls incident

Svetlana Grkovic Maksimovic, wife of a Ryanair passenger partially sucked out of a broken window on a flight from Greece to Germany, stands in front of AHEPA hospital where her husband is hospitalised, in Thessaloniki, Greece, Jul 14, 2026. (Photo: Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis) 15 Jul 2026 01:28PM THESSALONIKI, Greece: Svetlana Maksimovic and her husband Ljubisa Karovic had just settled into a Ryanair flight last week when a loud bang pierced the hum of engines. Within seconds, she saw her 61-year-old husband being sucked out of the plane through a dislodged cabin window. In what Greek officials have described as a rare incident, Karovic, sitting in a window seat, was pulled through the window as his wife and others held on to him on the flight between the Greek city of Thessaloniki and Ge