Settling into his window seat on flight FR1879 from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, on the morning of Friday, July 10, Serbian passenger Ljubisa Karovic, 61, would never have predicted that his choice of where to sit would become a life-defining, life-threatening moment.
The flight had been travelling for only ten minutes when passengers heard an enormous bang. The window next to Karovic’s seat on the Ryanair Boeing 737-800 had shattered. Despite being strapped into his seat, Karovic’s head and shoulders were sucked out of the window, and his entire torso was exposed to the elements for ‘up to two minutes’
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