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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
James C. Reynolds

‘If we die, we die together’: Woman describes terror of husband sucked through Ryanair window at 20,000ft

The wife of the man who was ‘sucked’ head-first through a broken window on a Ryanair flight at 20,000ft has described desperately trying to pull him back in as he repeatedly lost consciousness while stuck “outside up to his chest” for two minutes.

Svetlana Grković was travelling from Greece to Germany to see family with her husband, Ljubisa Karović, 61, when they heard a loud bang around half an hour after take-off. His passenger window was shattered by what appeared to be a part of the engine breaking off, causing sudden decompression.

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