Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary disputes report that an injured passenger was partly sucked out a shattered window

LONDON — The CEO of Ryanair on Thursday disputed {that a} passenger injured throughout a flight on one in every of its planes in July was partly sucked out a damaged window.

Ljubisa Karovic injured his neck and shoulder and had friction burns after the window shattered shortly after takeoff on a flight from northern Greece to Germany on July 10.

Karovic’s spouse and witnesses stated the strain drop prompted his head and shoulders to be pulled out the window. His spouse stated she held onto his legs and different passengers helped pull him again within the jet.

Airline chief Michael O’Leary acknowledged Karovic was injured and was entitled to compensation however not “millions and millions.”

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“He wasn’t partially out the window,” O’Leary stated after the Irish price range airline’s annual normal assembly in Dublin. “We don’t think any part of his body got out the window, but he was certainly sucked in very dramatic circumstances towards the window.”

Karovic had a seat belt on on the time. Passengers intervened and a steel field supplied by flight attendants was used to dam the lacking window.

The window shattered after being struck by fragments from a damaged fan blade within the Boeing 737-800’s proper engine that broken the fuselage and different components of the aircraft, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board stated in a preliminary report.

Flight attendants instructed investigators they heard and felt a loud, steady vibration and noticed smoke or fog fill the cabin earlier than oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling.

The aircraft returned safely to Greece.

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