NOT FLYING EVER AGAIN

Ryanair Passenger Sucked Out Window Breaks His Silence

The survivor says he now suffers panic attacks whenever he hears an airplane after the terrifying midair ordeal.

The Ryanair passenger whose head and shoulders were sucked out of a shattered aircraft window says the terrifying ordeal still haunts him and that he now suffers panic attacks whenever he hears an airplane. Ljubiša Karović, 61, said he had been asleep on the flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, when he was jolted awake by “a massive bang like a bomb.” “I had blood all over me,” he recalled, adding that he relives the experience every time he closes his eyes and is no longer willing to fly. Karović said the incident has left him “at rock bottom” mentally and struggling to function, while his injuries, including damage to his head, eye, ear, burns, and temporary paralysis on one side of his body, have left him uncertain whether he will ever fully recover. The horror unfolded after part of the aircraft’s engine broke apart and smashed through the window beside his seat. His wife, Svetlana Grković, held onto his legs until other passengers helped pull him back inside before the Ryanair flight returned safely to Thessaloniki.