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A 61-year-old Serbian businessman has described the moment a Ryanair jet's window exploded beside him at 15,000 feet, and his wife says she fought a force that nearly pulled him out of the aircraft for good. Ljubisa Karovic was asleep in seat 11F aboard Ryanair flight FR1879 on July 10 when a deafening blast tore […] The post Ryanair passenger sucked through shattered window at 15,000 feet gives first full account of mid-flight ordeal appeared first on American Almanac .
A 61-year-old Serbian businessman has described the moment a Ryanair jet's window exploded beside him at 15,000 feet, and his wife says she fought a force that nearly pulled him out of the aircraft for good. Ljubisa Karovic was asleep in seat 11F aboard Ryanair flight FR1879 on July 10 when a deafening blast tore through the cabin. The window next to him shattered. Cabin pressure dropped. And Karovic, still strapped to his seat, was partially sucked through the opening of a Boeing 737 traveling at nearly 500 miles per hour. He lost consciousness almost immediately. His wife, Svetlana Grkovic Maksimovic, seated three rows behind him in an aisle seat, watched her husband begin to disappear through the fuselage. She lunged forward, grabbed…Open