'If we die, we die together': Wife of man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane speaks of ordeal

"It's important to me that he's alive... 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 said. The Ryanair-flight" class="entity-link entity-event" data-entity-id="164914" data-entity-type="event">Ryanair flight was in the air for about 10 minutes, tracking data shows, when it abruptly dropped 9,000ft (2,700m).In a statement, Ryanair said its Friday morning flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen returned "shortly after take-off when a passenger window dislodged in flight"."The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal. One passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki," the Irish budget airline said."We immediately realised there had been a decompression. There were screams... for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door," Christina, a fellow passenger, told Thessaloniki" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="162837" data-entity-type="organization">Radio Thessaloniki.Another passenger, Sofia, told Thessaloniki" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="162837" data-entity-type="organization">Radio Thessaloniki: "We thought the plane was going down. The decompression was extreme. It felt like we couldn't breathe. The man who was injured was bleeding and then lost consciousness several times, most likely because of the lack of oxygen and the shock."The aircraft - believed to have been an 18 year-old-plane - was operated by Ryanair's subsidiary Malta Air.