Friday, July 10, 2026

Why does my wife always want an aisle seat on a plane?

She says it's for more leg room. Says she doesn't mind if I have to get up and go to the bathroom four times. I think this is closer to the truth than she wants to admit.
 According to this report this morning, a RYANAIR passenger was “sucked up to his shoulders” out of a cabin window after it was smashed open by pieces of the jet’s broken engine.
The wife of a 61-year-old Serbian man stopped him being yanked out of the Boeing 737 by gripping onto his legs for five minutes until bystanders rushed in to help. Flight FR1879 was en route to Memmingen, Germany, after departing from Makedonia airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, this morning at 5:55am.
But shortly after taking off, at a 20,000ft altitude, it was forced to return when passengers heard a deafening bang as the jet’s windows were shattered. 
 

The Serbian man was “sucked” from his seat and into the plane’s slipstream as bystanders screamed and the pilot repeatedly yelled “emergency!” over the speakers. But as soon as the windows broke, the passenger’s wife pinned 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.
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Why does my wife always want an aisle seat on a plane?

She says it's for more leg room. Says she doesn't mind if I have to get up and go to the bathroom four times. I think this is closer...