‘If we die, we die together’: wife of Ryanair passenger almost sucked through window speaks

Svetlana Grković says she grabbed her husband’s legs while he was ‘outside up to his chest’ for two minutes Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of window during flight Ryanair has axed family seating policy – but kids’ fees add up A woman who saved her husband from being completely sucked out of a Ryanair plane mid-flight has said she thought as she held on to his legs: “If we die, we die together.” Ljubisa Karović was sucked out headfirst on the flight on Friday after an engine failure resulted in parts smashing the acrylic window. “Half of his body was sticking out of the plane,” his wife, Svetlana Grković, told Serbian outlet Nova. “I immediately reacted and grabbed his legs,” she said, adding that he was “outside up to his chest” for two minutes. Grković said that with the help of two passengers she was able to pull her husband, who lost consciousness three times, back inside the aircraft. She said that many people fled their seats to other parts of the plane for safety as the cabin decompressed. The couple were on the flight, operated by the Ryanair subsidiary Malta Air, from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, for about 10 minutes whe

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