Overview
- A Malta Air-operated Boeing 737-800 on a Ryanair service from Thessaloniki to Memmingen returned to Thessaloniki on Friday morning after a cabin window dislodged in flight and oxygen masks deployed.
- Witnesses said a 61-year-old male passenger was partially pulled through the opening with his head and shoulders outside before fellow travellers and his wife hauled him back into the cabin.
- The injured man was taken to hospital with neck wounds, abrasions and friction burns and another passenger, reported pregnant, was treated as a precaution; most others were uninjured.
- Ryanair said the aircraft landed normally, passengers returned to the terminal, and a replacement plane carried the remaining travellers to Memmingen later that morning.
- Greek aviation authorities have opened an investigation to determine the cause and are probing early, unconfirmed reports that debris from an engine may have struck the window which triggered the decompression, a finding that would raise safety and maintenance questions.