Wife who held onto husband’s legs to stop him being sucked out of plane window thought ‘If we die, we die together’
A wife who grabbed onto her husband’s legs to stop him being sucked out of a broken Ryanair plane window at 20,000 feet has told of the frantic bid to save him – and revealed she thought “If we die, we die together.” Serbian national Ljubiša Karović, 61, was pulled toward the window when it was shattered by engine debris – around 30 minutes into Friday’s early morning flight that had taken off from Thessaloniki, Greece. “The pressure pulled Ljubiša, luckily he was strapped in, but half of his body was sticking out of the plane,” his wife Svetlana Grković told the Serbian outlet Nova.
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A wife who grabbed onto her husband’s legs to stop him being sucked out of a broken Ryanair plane window at 20,000 feet has told of the frantic bid to save him – and revealed she thought “If we die, we die together.” Serbian national Ljubiša Karović, 61, was pulled toward the window when it was shattered by engine debris – around 30 minutes into Friday’s early morning flight that had taken off from Thessaloniki, Greece. “The pressure pulled Ljubiša, luckily he was strapped in, but half of his body was sticking out of the plane,” his wife Svetlana Grković told the Serbian outlet Nova. “I reacted immediately and grabbed his legs. I thought ‘If we die, we die together.’ It was horrible.” Grković said her hubby “lost consciousness several times” as the cabin’s pressure dropped.
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- A wife who grabbed onto her husband’s legs to stop him being sucked out of a broken Ryanair plane window at 20,000 feet has told of the frantic bid to save him – and revealed she thought “If we die, we die together.” Serbian national Ljubiša Karović, 61, was pulled toward the window when it was shattered by engine debris – around 30 minutes into Friday’s early morning flight that had taken off from Thessaloniki, Greece. “The pressure pulled Ljubiša, luckily he was strapped in, but half of his body was sticking out of the plane,” his wife Svetlana Grković told the Serbian outlet Nova.
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