Pilot of Ryanair flight where passenger was sucked out of smashed window left crying on tarmac after horror at 20,000ft

A RYANAIR pilot was left crying on the tarmac after a passenger on board his flight was sucked out of a smashed cabin window.

The horror incident unfolded at 20,000ft altitude on a Boeing 737 flying to Germany from Greece early this morning.

But the pilot was forced to turn back shortly after takeoff when passengers heard a deafening bang as the jet’s windows were shattered.

A Serbian man, 61, was suddenly “sucked” from his seat and into the plane’s slipstream as the pilot repeatedly yelled “emergency!” over the speakers, witnesses said.

Passenger Sabrina, 37, told German outlet Bild: “I thought, that’s it.

“The man was pulled out of the plane by his head, and people ran over to help him.”

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Sabrina was sat four rows behind the window where the accident occurred.

The passenger’s wife managed to pin him down as his head and shoulders were left hanging out of the aircraft’s body.

She is said to have grappled onto him for about five minutes – before fellow passengers jumped in to help tug his body back to safety.

“It was a shock for everyone – the man had a head wound and also lost consciousness”, Sabrina said.

The near-death ordeal unfolded just over an hour into the flight after a failure in the plane’s engine, reports say.

Ryanair told The Sun the flight returned to Thessaloniki shortly after take-off after “a passenger window dislodged inflight.”

Sabrina said she “realised it must have been very serious” when the pilot was spotted crying on the tarmac after landing.

Several windows on the plane’s body were cracked open after pieces of the plane’s motor flung off, according to local media.

It has not been confirmed what caused the jet’s engine to break or why debris was launched from it.

Shocking footage showed the aftermath of the chaos – with gas masks seen hanging down and a gaping hole where one of the windows once was.

The airline added the aircraft landed normally and passengers were taken back to the terminal.

The man and three others were taken to hospital for treatment after the terrifying ordeal.

A replacement aircraft was arranged to minimise delays and departed from Thessaloniki to Memmingen at 9:53am local time this morning.

But Sabrina and her mother, who were on their way home from Greece, were too frightened to board another plane.

She told the outlet: “We didn’t want to get on another plane right away; we want to recover first.”