Wife of Ryanair passenger sucked out of dislodged window recalls incident

After takeoff, Karovic was relaxed and had probably fallen asleep, Maksimovic said.

She said that after the loud bang occurred, a woman sitting next to her husband kept pulling his left arm but it was only after another passenger came to help that they succeeded in getting him back inside the plane, which had by then started to descend.

Maksimovic, who had left her seat to help her husband, put an oxygen mask on him while another passenger gave her one for her own use.

"His face was completely disfigured, there was blood everywhere and his ears, eyes, nose were completely deformed," she said, adding that her husband was still struggling to recover.

"The consequences remain for him and for me," Maksimovic said. "How we're going to heal and how long that treatment will last and in what way, we'll see."