Wife of man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane speaks of ordeal

A woman who held the legs of her husband as he was nearly sucked head-first out of a Ryanair cabin window on Friday said his "right shoulder and head were outside the plane". Svetlana Grković Maksimović, who was travelling with her husband Ljubisa Karović from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, told BBC Serbia how two other passengers helped pull him back inside after nearly two minutes. "We pulled him back together," she said. "His entire face was deformed and blood was pouring from his nose and mouth." Speaking to Serbian outlet Nova, she said she "immediately reacted and grabbed his legs", adding: "I thought: 'If we die, we die together.'" Maksimović also told Greek public broadcaster ERT that it seemed like part of the plane's engine had broken off, smashing the window next to her husband and causing decompression in the cabin. Other passengers also reported hearing what sounded like an explosion. A technical adviser appointed by the family believes the incident began with a failure in the aircraft's right engine, causing debris to strike and shatter the cabin window before the rapid loss of cabin pressure. That assessment has not been confirmed by investigators. P