Passenger 'nearly sucked out of window mid-air' on Ryanair-owned plane

Passenger 'nearly sucked out of window mid-air' on Ryanair-owned planeImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The incident reportedly happened on a Malta Air flight, which is a subsidiary of Ryanair ByJaroslav Lukiv and Theo LeggettPublished3 minutes agoA passenger was reportedly nearly sucked out of a cabin window in mid-air on a Ryanair-owned plane.Witnesses told local media the man, said to be a Serbian citizen in his 60s, was left hanging head first out of the window as far as his shoulders for several minutes, before other passengers on the Malta Air flight managed to pull him back inside.In a statement, Ryanair said its Friday morning flight from the Greek city of Thessaloniki to Germany's Memmingen returned "shortly after take-off when a passenger window dislodged inflight".It continued: "The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal. One passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki."The Irish budget airline added that "a replacement aircraft was arranged to bring passengers to Memmingen" several hours later.Media reports in Greece and Germany quoted passengers describing a loud bang followed by the window breaking and oxygen masks falling from the ceiling shortly after the Boeing 737 had taken off.They believe the window was smashed by pieces of the jet's engine - although Ryanair has not commented on this."We immediately realised there had been a decompression. There were screams... for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door," Christina, a fellow passenger, told Radio Thessaloniki."The masks dropped and there was a strong smell. The head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he hadn't taken off his seat belt."The aircraft - believed to have been an 18 year-old-plane - was operated by Ryanair's subsidiary Malta Air.The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) later tol...