July 13, 2026
No More Window Seats For Us! Man Partially Sucked Out Of Airline Window Mid-Flight
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RSS Feed A frightening story and a cautionary tale for air travelers, after a 61-year-old man on a flight from Greece to Germany was partially sucked out of an airplane window. His wife and fellow passengers held onto his legs, and eventually pulled him back inside the plane. He is now recovering in the hospital with head and neck injuries and friction burns. Witness accounts from inside the cabin are harrowing and many believe the man is alive today because he was wearing his seatbelt when the window dislodged from the plane. This isn’t the first time an incident like this occurred, back in 2018, a woman was killed in eerily similar circumstances, on the same type of plane, a Boeing 737, headed from New York to Dallas.
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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, it is Monday, July thirteenth. Than which camp do you fall in? Window or asle? Well, after you hear this next jury, the question might be middle seat or isle, and you don't ever want to sit next to that window again. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. A man partially being sucked out the window, his wife holding on to his feet to try to keep him from being sucked out the plane. Are you serious, babe?
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Speaker 2: The accounts coming in now from witnesses who were on the plane, it's some.
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Speaker 3: Of the scariest.
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Speaker 2: Accounts I have ever read, just because I think so many of us listening are on planes frequently, at least either for work or for fun.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, we all fight over who gets what seat.
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Speaker 2: I've always been an aile person for the record, only because I feel claustrophobic with you.
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Speaker 3: I got a pee a lot.
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Speaker 2: I just want access to getting up and getting out if I need to when I'm at the windows.
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Speaker 3: I actually you have to work through anxiety.
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Speaker 2: This is now getting because I don't like feeling trapped like I can't get out or if something happened I needed to be free. I just I have a feeling of being enclosed.
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Speaker 1: And then some people like the window seat because I just like to look out the window. Was it yeah?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean look, I get a little jealous sometimes when you're flying over beautiful topography, whether it's a city skyline or gorgeous mountains, I want to look too, But it's not worth it because I know I never like how I feel when I sit at the window. And now after this story, I absolutely would take a middle seat over a window seat.
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Speaker 1: And this story now is going everywhere being talked about as robes. What else do we have to deal with this airline passengers. We've had a year really a bizarre incident, a plane upside down in an airport in one incident, a truck that's on the runway being hit by a plane that's landing. We've had some weird incidents, robes, So add this now to another thing to worry about. But this flight Ryanair is what it was. We should explain what they are first of all. Don't know if that factors into the story, but it's least worth mentioning.
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Speaker 3: It's worth mentioning.
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Speaker 2: This is a budget Irish airline that if anyone has needed to fly on a tight budget throughout Europe.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Air is your friend.
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Speaker 2: I've been on Ryan Air once and my daughters have been on it multiple times. Because, yes, it is oftentimes the cheapest way to get anywhere from country to country in Europe, and it's a nice way for folks if you don't want to take the time to be on a train or drive. It's actually a really cost effective way to get from country to country.
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Speaker 1: You could give Sorry, I'm putting you on the spot here. I know they've said it several times. Just how cheap some of the tickets.
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Speaker 2: So it's under under one hundred bucks sometimes to get in one way. Yes, my kids have flown somewhere I think for thirty five bucks.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow. Okay, so this is the airline we're talking about. No suggestion right now that has to do with anything here, bro. But this particular flight we're talking about was supposed to be heading from Greece to Germany when this happened.
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Speaker 2: Correct, And look, I actually wanted to point out the airline obviously is making headlines. But the plane that they were in was a Boeing seven thirty seven. That is a very common plane and it had been flying since two thousand and eight, So it was an eighteen year old plane. I don't know in terms of planes if that makes it kind of like middle aged, but certainly wasn't necessarily as old of a model as I would have.
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Speaker 3: Thought it would have been given what happened.
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Speaker 2: But according to Greek media, the plane engine apart from the plane, reportedly hit like it became. There was some engine failure and a part of the engine flew out of the engine and into a window, breaking the window or dis lodging the window. I've seen the pictures after the fact, and there was a huge gaping hole in this window, and so yes, the man seated next to that window, apparently his head and his shoulders got sucked outside the aircraft's that.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like it hurts. I mean, the amount of pressure I can imagine. Never been in a plane where I had this time issue, but that I mean, you see that movie. That's the best indication we ever get roads, But that's pretty accurate. At that speed, at that altitude, with that pressurized cabin, a window opens, everything starts getting sucked out that window roes. That's it. I cannot imagine. I did see the picture. Now we've talked about this earlier. I'm saying, so many windows are so small, I can't imagine anything. This one looked like it was. It was a big enough opening, it.
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Speaker 2: Was bigger, and he must have just his shoulders must have fit through the window. I mean, it's just the scariest, freakiest thing ever. So, yes, the wife, his wife is holding his legs and with the help of other passengers, they say it took several minutes, they were eventually able to collectively pull him back inside that plane. He was hospitalized with head and neck injuries and friction burns. And look, there were a lot of things going on in the cabin at that time. I got a bunch of witness accounts, a bunch of statements from people who were in the place. This is one of the scariest things I've ever heard, can you imagine? Because yes, that was going on, but passengers were also experiencing a lot. The plane dropped, according to I believe this is to radar, that it dropped nine thousand feet when that window broke, the entire cabin depressurized, the oxygen masks fall down, and people were screaming.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you imagine, I guess robes there are plenty of people on that plane, especially maybe further up to who weren't right where this was happening, who didn't know what was happening, who didn't know robes is a cure. I've never had it happen the oxygen masks come down, neither have I, but I know that warning. I hear it every single flight we take what to do, Make sure you put your own before you do. Somebody who needs help next to you, even though the bag might not inflate, oxygen is flowing breathe normally robes. When that thing comes down, we're in trouble. And you know that. And all those full saw that come down without Felly understanding and feeling.
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Speaker 2: The plane drops a nine thousand drop that was terrifying, Oh my god. And so and also so you hear screaming there's a nine thousand foot drop, and all the passengers reported hearing quote some kind of explosion. So I would imagine you think you're going to die, You think the plane is going down, and then you see a man's head and shoulders, maybe you have a view of it stuck. You know, Just to know that certain passengers got out of their seats when all this was happening, didn't put the oxygen masks on themselves and help this wife pull him. Those people are heroes because that takes a split second decision to decide to put someone else's life above yours.
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Speaker 1: In that moment, you just react, Robes And I don't know the age, Well, he's sixty one, was sixty one years old. Imagine his wife. These are not I mean, I don't know what kind of shape there in, but yes, I can imagine a sixty one year old woman or sixty year old woman might struggle pulling a man back in with a pressurized cabin like that. So that jumped in and instinctively helped Ropes. They talk about this was going on up to five minutes. What was he enduring. If your head is outside a plane moving at that rate of speed, Roges, that sounds impossible to survive.
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Speaker 2: It does, and it is remarkable that he did survive. And with some of these witness accounts it does appear. One woman specifically said he had his seatbelt on. So this is what I've got a couple of these. I'll reade them to you. We immediately realized there had been a decompression. There were screams. For a moment, I thought someone accidentally opened the emergency door. That makes sense because you're probably feeling and hearing wind, So that was what someone's first response was. Then someone said 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. We thought the plane was going down. The decompression was extreme. It felt like we couldn't breathe. The man who was injured was bleeding and then lost consciousness several times, most likely because of the lack of oxygen and the shock. I mean, so he was bleeding, he was passed out, Their plane was dropping. People were having a hard time breathing. I mean, this is just beyond comprehension that these folks lived through this unbelievable trauma. And so to hear that and then to read Ryanair's statement, it's laughable.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they addressed everything but the thing we wanted them to address.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you hear these accounts being painted, the picture being painted, you can imagine as an air traveler what that must have been like to see, hear, feel, and even smell. They're saying, and Ryan Air puts out a statement when they land that says a flight returned to the Saloniki. I don't know how to say it in Greece shortly after takeoff when a passenger window dislodged in flight. The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal. One passenger requested and received medical attention on the ground. That does not at all like it's true what we heard from passengers.
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Speaker 3: It's like an absolute departure from reality.
00:09:09
Speaker 1: All that is true, but they didn't want to focus on that particular party much.
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Speaker 2: Okay, they left out the part where the plane dropped nine thousand feet, the oxygen masks dropped down, there was screaming, everyone thought they were going to die, and a passenger was nearly sucked out of the window.
00:09:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, all that stuff doesn't doesn't help them in the lawsuit that comes later.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 2: So the NTSB did inquire here in the United States, but the plane was flying over North Macedonia. So because of the way I didn't realize this that's the country now that will lead the investigation.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting, It's not.
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Speaker 2: It's not where it took off from in Greece or not where it was headed to land in Germany, but North Macedonia.
00:09:49
Speaker 1: Where it took place where the incident Isn't that strange.
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Speaker 2: But that's how they decide who leads the investigation.
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Speaker 1: It's not where it was. Wouldn't a US airline be I don't know if a Delta flight was flying.
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Speaker 2: Over to Ryan air is obviously helping in. Irish officials are a part of it, but they say the lead for the investigation is North Macedonia, and they did confirm to the NTSB and they've offered their support. Obviously, some other countries might have more resources, so the NTSB is offering their support. Other countries are offering their support to help out with the investigation. But they informed NTSP that the plane had turned around already like they were turning around because they knew they had a problem. They said, due to a right engine issue and cavin D compression. So look, this is just one of those moments. And thankfully, thankfully, this man, and it really is remarkable, survived. He's in the hospital. They say that he is stable. He was in shock, but he had quite a few injuries to his head, to his neck, burns, on him like, I don't know how you survived that pressure.
00:10:54
Speaker 1: Bro the speed these things are going. If I take you outside right now on the West Side Highway and go ninety miles an hour and you stick your head out the window, you're gonna be uncomfortable. Babe.
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Speaker 2: I know this is awful, but I would have thought someone's head would get ripped off. I mean, I know that sounds terrible, but that would be what I would have thought would have happened.
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Speaker 1: This is wild. This is my wild, wild story. I don't know what I mean. Roh. Something flew, something flew off the engine then broke the window. Right, It wasn't just a window failure on its own. Do these things just happen? What happens with that engine, we don't know. But what a flukish thing to hit just right and to have a window the right size, Because again I looked at it now, ropes, Yes, you can fit like your whole body could go through that thing.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And if he hadn't had a seat belt on.
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Speaker 2: A pilot who was looking at this made a comment to media saying it absolutely he could have completely flun out of the plane if he have his seatbelt on. Now when we come back. You mentioned this being flukish. Wait until you hear I don't really remember this. But in twenty eighteen, there was an almost identical story in the identical model of aircraft, and it happened right here in the United States.
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Speaker 3: And the woman who.
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Speaker 2: Was sucked out partially of this airplane did not have such a happy ending. In fact, she died from her injuries. We will tell you about that previous incident when we come back. Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about something that, gosh, you just think or you would hope, would be impossible, and yet it happened. On Friday, Actually, a passenger flying from Greece to Germany was partially sucked out of the window of the aircraft while it was mid air, and it was all due to engine failure. According to initial assessments, that something flew out of the engine, hit the wind, it broke, and this man got partially sucked out of the airplane. Now, thankfully he survived. But in twenty eighteen, the almost exact same thing happened to a Southwest Airlines flight flight thirteen eighty, one hundred and forty four people on board a flight headed from LaGuardia to Dallas.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember this, Oh?
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Speaker 1: No, few years ago.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't either, And that's what's so striking, because this woman died. She too, was in a Boeing seven thirty seven, about twenty minutes into a four hour flight. They were thirty thousand feet in the air and an engine fan blade broke off the engine and came loose and flew into her cabin window. The woman forty three years old, her name was Jennifer Reordan, and yes, she too, was partially pulled through the window opening, and she died from blunt force trauma to her head, neck, and torso that was the official cause of death. She was a mom of two, a Wells Fargo execus living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and people who were on the plane described the scene where they were able to also pull her back in, but it was clear her injuries were horrific and they were performing CPR on her all the way until they landed, but she died from her injuries.
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Speaker 3: And it was the same kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: The plane plunged thousands of feet, oxygen masks dropped, I mean, it was almost the same thing. So the concern now is, and the questions are, is there something off with the seven thirty seven and the engine parts, and is this something It's not happened now just once it wasn't just a fluke. Now it's happened again, and I know it's eight years later, but still that's not comforting to people who travel often and on Boing seven thirty sevens now again.
00:14:43
Speaker 1: It's the numb. I'm amazed. The number of planes that are in the air every day that land without incident is remarkable. It's remarkable something's flying off these engines and it happens once every decade. That's an odd thing. It happens just right to hit a window once every decade. I don't know. But if yes, they are looking into it now and they should, or if that's terrifying, No, it's just one more thing. You and I have been doing this lately, and I'm sure you probably notice me, and I'm risk averse, you know how I am. But I'm looking around we land, and I'm looking out the window for vehicles for another plane possibly coming onto the runway. That seat belt I used to take my seat belt off when we land. That sucker stays on until the door opens. Dam near up the plane ropes. It's just we got so much to worry about, and we add this to it. It's terrifying. No, it doesn't happen often, but still none of these things happen often, but as a collective Jesus.
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Speaker 2: And look, yes, you're right, and that's a good point to have that perspective. But it also is a reminder every time you fly you keep that seatbelt on.
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Speaker 3: And I will also agree.
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Speaker 2: I used to take my seatbelt off as soon as the seatbelt signs were off. I don't want to be constricted by that thing, so I would take it off. Now when I'm sitting down, I have I keep that seatbelt on. Turbulence, fluke, accidents, freakish things happen. They don't happen often, but they do happen. And I am now just going to be a stickler for that aisle seat that is. I mean, I wonder too, if the if the if the window had been down, if the pain had been down, would that have helped it all?
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Speaker 3: Probably just would have gotten pulled out plastic. Yeah, that probably isn't too much of a help.
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Speaker 2: But look, I know sometimes you don't get a say you just got to take the window seat. But I will always choose, if given the option, not to sit there. It's just another added risk that I don't want to think about.
00:16:38
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to have to do some negotiating.
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Speaker 3: One of us.
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Speaker 1: One of us is going to have to take one.
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Speaker 3: You're bigger, You're less likely to go out the window.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I would go oh, an though you're going to say, I have longer legs, so I would eat the space at the aisle. I guess we can just sit across the aisle from each other.
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Speaker 2: Now we can hold hands like across the aisle at over time that you know the flight intendant needs to go through.
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Speaker 3: We can break up the chain and then come back.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna change some travel habits.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, no, but this is certainly I think the biggest takeaway is, folks, keep your seatbelts on period, all right, And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us.
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Speaker 3: I'm made me Robock alongside TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, it is Monday, July thirteenth. Than which camp do you fall in? Window or asle? Well, after you hear this next jury, the question might be middle seat or isle, and you don't ever want to sit next to that window again. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. A man partially being sucked out the window, his wife holding on to his feet to try to keep him from being sucked out the plane. Are you serious, babe?
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Speaker 2: The accounts coming in now from witnesses who were on the plane, it's some.
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Speaker 3: Of the scariest.
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Speaker 2: Accounts I have ever read, just because I think so many of us listening are on planes frequently, at least either for work or for fun.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, we all fight over who gets what seat.
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Speaker 2: I've always been an aile person for the record, only because I feel claustrophobic with you.
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Speaker 3: I got a pee a lot.
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Speaker 2: I just want access to getting up and getting out if I need to when I'm at the windows.
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Speaker 3: I actually you have to work through anxiety.
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Speaker 2: This is now getting because I don't like feeling trapped like I can't get out or if something happened I needed to be free. I just I have a feeling of being enclosed.
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Speaker 1: And then some people like the window seat because I just like to look out the window. Was it yeah?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean look, I get a little jealous sometimes when you're flying over beautiful topography, whether it's a city skyline or gorgeous mountains, I want to look too, But it's not worth it because I know I never like how I feel when I sit at the window. And now after this story, I absolutely would take a middle seat over a window seat.
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Speaker 1: And this story now is going everywhere being talked about as robes. What else do we have to deal with this airline passengers. We've had a year really a bizarre incident, a plane upside down in an airport in one incident, a truck that's on the runway being hit by a plane that's landing. We've had some weird incidents, robes, So add this now to another thing to worry about. But this flight Ryanair is what it was. We should explain what they are first of all. Don't know if that factors into the story, but it's least worth mentioning.
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Speaker 3: It's worth mentioning.
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Speaker 2: This is a budget Irish airline that if anyone has needed to fly on a tight budget throughout Europe.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Air is your friend.
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Speaker 2: I've been on Ryan Air once and my daughters have been on it multiple times. Because, yes, it is oftentimes the cheapest way to get anywhere from country to country in Europe, and it's a nice way for folks if you don't want to take the time to be on a train or drive. It's actually a really cost effective way to get from country to country.
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Speaker 1: You could give Sorry, I'm putting you on the spot here. I know they've said it several times. Just how cheap some of the tickets.
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Speaker 2: So it's under under one hundred bucks sometimes to get in one way. Yes, my kids have flown somewhere I think for thirty five bucks.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow. Okay, so this is the airline we're talking about. No suggestion right now that has to do with anything here, bro. But this particular flight we're talking about was supposed to be heading from Greece to Germany when this happened.
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Speaker 2: Correct, And look, I actually wanted to point out the airline obviously is making headlines. But the plane that they were in was a Boeing seven thirty seven. That is a very common plane and it had been flying since two thousand and eight, So it was an eighteen year old plane. I don't know in terms of planes if that makes it kind of like middle aged, but certainly wasn't necessarily as old of a model as I would have.
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Speaker 3: Thought it would have been given what happened.
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Speaker 2: But according to Greek media, the plane engine apart from the plane, reportedly hit like it became. There was some engine failure and a part of the engine flew out of the engine and into a window, breaking the window or dis lodging the window. I've seen the pictures after the fact, and there was a huge gaping hole in this window, and so yes, the man seated next to that window, apparently his head and his shoulders got sucked outside the aircraft's that.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like it hurts. I mean, the amount of pressure I can imagine. Never been in a plane where I had this time issue, but that I mean, you see that movie. That's the best indication we ever get roads, But that's pretty accurate. At that speed, at that altitude, with that pressurized cabin, a window opens, everything starts getting sucked out that window roes. That's it. I cannot imagine. I did see the picture. Now we've talked about this earlier. I'm saying, so many windows are so small, I can't imagine anything. This one looked like it was. It was a big enough opening, it.
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Speaker 2: Was bigger, and he must have just his shoulders must have fit through the window. I mean, it's just the scariest, freakiest thing ever. So, yes, the wife, his wife is holding his legs and with the help of other passengers, they say it took several minutes, they were eventually able to collectively pull him back inside that plane. He was hospitalized with head and neck injuries and friction burns. And look, there were a lot of things going on in the cabin at that time. I got a bunch of witness accounts, a bunch of statements from people who were in the place. This is one of the scariest things I've ever heard, can you imagine? Because yes, that was going on, but passengers were also experiencing a lot. The plane dropped, according to I believe this is to radar, that it dropped nine thousand feet when that window broke, the entire cabin depressurized, the oxygen masks fall down, and people were screaming.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you imagine, I guess robes there are plenty of people on that plane, especially maybe further up to who weren't right where this was happening, who didn't know what was happening, who didn't know robes is a cure. I've never had it happen the oxygen masks come down, neither have I, but I know that warning. I hear it every single flight we take what to do, Make sure you put your own before you do. Somebody who needs help next to you, even though the bag might not inflate, oxygen is flowing breathe normally robes. When that thing comes down, we're in trouble. And you know that. And all those full saw that come down without Felly understanding and feeling.
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Speaker 2: The plane drops a nine thousand drop that was terrifying, Oh my god. And so and also so you hear screaming there's a nine thousand foot drop, and all the passengers reported hearing quote some kind of explosion. So I would imagine you think you're going to die, You think the plane is going down, and then you see a man's head and shoulders, maybe you have a view of it stuck. You know, Just to know that certain passengers got out of their seats when all this was happening, didn't put the oxygen masks on themselves and help this wife pull him. Those people are heroes because that takes a split second decision to decide to put someone else's life above yours.
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Speaker 1: In that moment, you just react, Robes And I don't know the age, Well, he's sixty one, was sixty one years old. Imagine his wife. These are not I mean, I don't know what kind of shape there in, but yes, I can imagine a sixty one year old woman or sixty year old woman might struggle pulling a man back in with a pressurized cabin like that. So that jumped in and instinctively helped Ropes. They talk about this was going on up to five minutes. What was he enduring. If your head is outside a plane moving at that rate of speed, Roges, that sounds impossible to survive.
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Speaker 2: It does, and it is remarkable that he did survive. And with some of these witness accounts it does appear. One woman specifically said he had his seatbelt on. So this is what I've got a couple of these. I'll reade them to you. We immediately realized there had been a decompression. There were screams. For a moment, I thought someone accidentally opened the emergency door. That makes sense because you're probably feeling and hearing wind, So that was what someone's first response was. Then someone said 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. We thought the plane was going down. The decompression was extreme. It felt like we couldn't breathe. The man who was injured was bleeding and then lost consciousness several times, most likely because of the lack of oxygen and the shock. I mean, so he was bleeding, he was passed out, Their plane was dropping. People were having a hard time breathing. I mean, this is just beyond comprehension that these folks lived through this unbelievable trauma. And so to hear that and then to read Ryanair's statement, it's laughable.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they addressed everything but the thing we wanted them to address.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you hear these accounts being painted, the picture being painted, you can imagine as an air traveler what that must have been like to see, hear, feel, and even smell. They're saying, and Ryan Air puts out a statement when they land that says a flight returned to the Saloniki. I don't know how to say it in Greece shortly after takeoff when a passenger window dislodged in flight. The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal. One passenger requested and received medical attention on the ground. That does not at all like it's true what we heard from passengers.
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Speaker 3: It's like an absolute departure from reality.
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Speaker 1: All that is true, but they didn't want to focus on that particular party much.
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Speaker 2: Okay, they left out the part where the plane dropped nine thousand feet, the oxygen masks dropped down, there was screaming, everyone thought they were going to die, and a passenger was nearly sucked out of the window.
00:09:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, all that stuff doesn't doesn't help them in the lawsuit that comes later.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 2: So the NTSB did inquire here in the United States, but the plane was flying over North Macedonia. So because of the way I didn't realize this that's the country now that will lead the investigation.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting, It's not.
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Speaker 2: It's not where it took off from in Greece or not where it was headed to land in Germany, but North Macedonia.
00:09:49
Speaker 1: Where it took place where the incident Isn't that strange.
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Speaker 2: But that's how they decide who leads the investigation.
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Speaker 1: It's not where it was. Wouldn't a US airline be I don't know if a Delta flight was flying.
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Speaker 2: Over to Ryan air is obviously helping in. Irish officials are a part of it, but they say the lead for the investigation is North Macedonia, and they did confirm to the NTSB and they've offered their support. Obviously, some other countries might have more resources, so the NTSB is offering their support. Other countries are offering their support to help out with the investigation. But they informed NTSP that the plane had turned around already like they were turning around because they knew they had a problem. They said, due to a right engine issue and cavin D compression. So look, this is just one of those moments. And thankfully, thankfully, this man, and it really is remarkable, survived. He's in the hospital. They say that he is stable. He was in shock, but he had quite a few injuries to his head, to his neck, burns, on him like, I don't know how you survived that pressure.
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Speaker 1: Bro the speed these things are going. If I take you outside right now on the West Side Highway and go ninety miles an hour and you stick your head out the window, you're gonna be uncomfortable. Babe.
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Speaker 2: I know this is awful, but I would have thought someone's head would get ripped off. I mean, I know that sounds terrible, but that would be what I would have thought would have happened.
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Speaker 1: This is wild. This is my wild, wild story. I don't know what I mean. Roh. Something flew, something flew off the engine then broke the window. Right, It wasn't just a window failure on its own. Do these things just happen? What happens with that engine, we don't know. But what a flukish thing to hit just right and to have a window the right size, Because again I looked at it now, ropes, Yes, you can fit like your whole body could go through that thing.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And if he hadn't had a seat belt on.
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Speaker 2: A pilot who was looking at this made a comment to media saying it absolutely he could have completely flun out of the plane if he have his seatbelt on. Now when we come back. You mentioned this being flukish. Wait until you hear I don't really remember this. But in twenty eighteen, there was an almost identical story in the identical model of aircraft, and it happened right here in the United States.
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Speaker 3: And the woman who.
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Speaker 2: Was sucked out partially of this airplane did not have such a happy ending. In fact, she died from her injuries. We will tell you about that previous incident when we come back. Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about something that, gosh, you just think or you would hope, would be impossible, and yet it happened. On Friday, Actually, a passenger flying from Greece to Germany was partially sucked out of the window of the aircraft while it was mid air, and it was all due to engine failure. According to initial assessments, that something flew out of the engine, hit the wind, it broke, and this man got partially sucked out of the airplane. Now, thankfully he survived. But in twenty eighteen, the almost exact same thing happened to a Southwest Airlines flight flight thirteen eighty, one hundred and forty four people on board a flight headed from LaGuardia to Dallas.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember this, Oh?
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Speaker 1: No, few years ago.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't either, And that's what's so striking, because this woman died. She too, was in a Boeing seven thirty seven, about twenty minutes into a four hour flight. They were thirty thousand feet in the air and an engine fan blade broke off the engine and came loose and flew into her cabin window. The woman forty three years old, her name was Jennifer Reordan, and yes, she too, was partially pulled through the window opening, and she died from blunt force trauma to her head, neck, and torso that was the official cause of death. She was a mom of two, a Wells Fargo execus living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and people who were on the plane described the scene where they were able to also pull her back in, but it was clear her injuries were horrific and they were performing CPR on her all the way until they landed, but she died from her injuries.
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Speaker 3: And it was the same kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: The plane plunged thousands of feet, oxygen masks dropped, I mean, it was almost the same thing. So the concern now is, and the questions are, is there something off with the seven thirty seven and the engine parts, and is this something It's not happened now just once it wasn't just a fluke. Now it's happened again, and I know it's eight years later, but still that's not comforting to people who travel often and on Boing seven thirty sevens now again.
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Speaker 1: It's the numb. I'm amazed. The number of planes that are in the air every day that land without incident is remarkable. It's remarkable something's flying off these engines and it happens once every decade. That's an odd thing. It happens just right to hit a window once every decade. I don't know. But if yes, they are looking into it now and they should, or if that's terrifying, No, it's just one more thing. You and I have been doing this lately, and I'm sure you probably notice me, and I'm risk averse, you know how I am. But I'm looking around we land, and I'm looking out the window for vehicles for another plane possibly coming onto the runway. That seat belt I used to take my seat belt off when we land. That sucker stays on until the door opens. Dam near up the plane ropes. It's just we got so much to worry about, and we add this to it. It's terrifying. No, it doesn't happen often, but still none of these things happen often, but as a collective Jesus.
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Speaker 2: And look, yes, you're right, and that's a good point to have that perspective. But it also is a reminder every time you fly you keep that seatbelt on.
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Speaker 3: And I will also agree.
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Speaker 2: I used to take my seatbelt off as soon as the seatbelt signs were off. I don't want to be constricted by that thing, so I would take it off. Now when I'm sitting down, I have I keep that seatbelt on. Turbulence, fluke, accidents, freakish things happen. They don't happen often, but they do happen. And I am now just going to be a stickler for that aisle seat that is. I mean, I wonder too, if the if the if the window had been down, if the pain had been down, would that have helped it all?
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Speaker 3: Probably just would have gotten pulled out plastic. Yeah, that probably isn't too much of a help.
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Speaker 2: But look, I know sometimes you don't get a say you just got to take the window seat. But I will always choose, if given the option, not to sit there. It's just another added risk that I don't want to think about.
00:16:38
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to have to do some negotiating.
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Speaker 3: One of us.
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Speaker 1: One of us is going to have to take one.
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Speaker 3: You're bigger, You're less likely to go out the window.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I would go oh, an though you're going to say, I have longer legs, so I would eat the space at the aisle. I guess we can just sit across the aisle from each other.
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Speaker 2: Now we can hold hands like across the aisle at over time that you know the flight intendant needs to go through.
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Speaker 3: We can break up the chain and then come back.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna change some travel habits.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, no, but this is certainly I think the biggest takeaway is, folks, keep your seatbelts on period, all right, And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us.
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Speaker 3: I'm made me Robock alongside TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.