A WOMAN WHO held the legs of her husband as he was nearly sucked out of a Ryanair plane mid-flight said she thought to herself: “If we die, we die together.”

The incident happened on 10 July on a flight from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany.

Ljubisa Karović, from Serbia, was nearly sucked out the window of the Ryanair flight when it “detached” mid-air en route to Germany.

Other passengers, including his wife, pulled him back inside.

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Passengers have told local media that Karović had kept his seatbelt on, which helped those on board to keep him inside the plane.

Karović was hospitalised with friction burns.

Speaking to Serbian outlet Nova, his wife Svetlana Grković said: “I immediately reacted and grabbed his legs. I thought: ‘If we die, we die together’.”

Grković said two other passengers helped her to pull her husband back into the plane, who was “outside up to his chest”.

“The girl who was sitting next to him was holding him by the hand,” said Grković.

“Three of us were pulling him back inside. The oxygen masks dropped and chaos broke out.”

She said a suitcase was then put against the window but that it was sucked out.

Grković added that her husband is “seriously injured and in shock”.

“His hand is particularly badly injured, and he’s got burns. He’s not able to communicate, he doesn’t remember the whole event.”

She added that her husband “starts shaking” whenever he hears about aeroplanes.

“I am also in a very bad psychological state,” she added.

“I feared for our lives. I was afraid the plane was going to crash.”

Greek media reported the incident had occurred over North Macedonia, and said the window had been broken by a piece of debris that detached from one of the plane’s engines.

Ryanair in a statement said the flight “returned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window detached during the flight”.

“The aircraft landed normally and the passengers returned to the terminal,” Ryanair added.

It said a replacement aircraft was made available to transport the remaining passengers to Memmingen.