
Grković said she has not been able to stop thinking about the ordeal.
“I am constantly doing something to take me mind of what happened, but those images just won’t leave. Yesterday I got into an elevator, and I suddenly felt a terrible sense of suffocation,” she said.
“Now the question is whether we will ever get on a plane again.”
The 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 Radio Thessaloniki.