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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Katerini

‘The explosion is what I remember’: man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane recounts ordeal

A shirtless Karovic wearing a neck brace sits on a couch in a residential setting
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer what happened to me’: Ljubisa Karović on the porch of his rented garden flat in Katerini, Greece. Photograph: Helena Smith/The Guardian

It is the explosion just before he was nearly sucked out of the aircraft that Ljubisa Karović remembers. The thunderous noise of the window shattering that roused him from slumber in 11F, his window seat on the early morning Ryanair flight from Greece to Germany.

Eleven days and 11 nights later, it remains the prelude “to the chaos, the catastrophe” that keeps him awake at night.

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