No More Window Seats For Us! Man Partially Sucked Out Of Airline Window Mid-Flight
Amy & T.J.
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A frightening story and a cautionary tale for air travelers, after a 61-year-old man on a flight from Greece to Germany was partially sucked out of an airplane window. His wife and fellow passengers held onto his legs, and eventually pulled him back inside the plane. He is now recovering in the hospital with head and neck injuries and friction burns. Witness accounts from inside the cabin are harrowing and many believe the man is alive today because he was wearing his seatbelt when the window dislodged from the plane. This isn’t the first time an incident like this occurred, back in 2018, a woman was killed in eerily similar circumstances, on the same type of plane, a Boeing 737, headed from New York to Dallas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Monday, July 13th, and which camp do you fall in? Window or Isle? |
| 0:14.1 | Well, after you hear this next story, the question might be middle seat or aisle, and you don't |
| 0:20.1 | ever want to sit next to that window again. |
| 0:22.0 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. A man partially being sucked out the window, |
| 0:26.4 | his wife holding on to his feet to try to keep him from being sucked out the plane. Are you serious? |
| 0:32.7 | Babe, the accounts coming in now from witnesses who were on the plane, it's some of the scariest accounts I have ever read, just because I think so many of us listening are on planes frequently, at least either for work or for fun. |
| 0:50.0 | But yeah, we all fight over who gets what seat. |
| 0:53.0 | I've always been an aisle person for the record, only because I feel claustrophobic. I'm with you. I got to pee a lot. I just want access to getting up and getting out if I need to. When I'm at the windows, I actually have to work through anxiety. This is now getting... Why? Why? Why? Because I don't like feeling trapped. Like I can't get out or if something happened I needed to be free. I just... I have a feeling of being enclosed. And then some people like the window seat because I just like to look out the window. Is that fair? Yeah. Oh, I mean, look, I get a little jealous sometimes when you're flying over beautiful topography, whether it's a city skyline or gorgeous mountains. I want to look too, |
| 1:28.9 | but it's not worth it because I know I never like how I feel when I sit at the window. |
| 1:33.9 | And now after this story, I absolutely would take a middle seat over a window seat. |
| 1:39.0 | And this story now is going everywhere, being talked about as robs. What else do we have to deal with this? |
| 1:46.0 | Airline passengers? We've had a year, really, a bizarre incident, a plane upside down in an airport |
| 1:50.9 | in one incident, a truck that's on the runway being hit by a plane that's landing. We've had some |
| 1:57.0 | weird incidents, Robes. So add this now to another thing to worry about. But this flight, |
| 2:01.6 | Ryanair is what it was. We should explain what they are, first of all. Don't know if that |
| 2:05.7 | factors into the story, but it's least worth mentioning. It's worth mentioning. This is a budget |
| 2:10.3 | Irish airline that if anyone has needed to fly on a tight budget throughout Europe, Ryan Air is your friend. I've been on Ryanair once |
| 2:19.7 | and my daughters have been on it multiple times because yes, it is oftentimes the cheapest way |
| 2:26.0 | to get anywhere from country to country in Europe. And it's a nice way for folks if you don't want |
| 2:30.9 | to take the time to be on a train or drive, it's actually a really cost-effective |
| 2:35.2 | way to get from country to country. Sorry, if I'm putting you on the spot here, I know they've said it several times, just how cheap some of the tickets are. Oh, it's under 100 bucks sometimes to get. And one way, yes, my kids have flown somewhere, I think, for 35 bucks. Oh, wow. Okay. So this is the airline we're talking about. no suggestion right now that has to do with anything here, Roe. |
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