THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Fellow passengers pulled back a man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged airplane window on Friday, a few minutes after takeoff on a flight from northern Greece to Germany.

The plane subsequently returned to the airport in Greece.

The incident occurred on a morning flight from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to Memmingen, near Munich, operated by Malta Air, a subsidiary of Ryanair, Europe’s largest budget carrier.

Ryanair said in a statement the flight “returned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window dislodged in-flight.”

The 61-year-old, who was not identified, suffered neck and shoulder injuries and friction burns, according to a Greek hospital official.

It was not immediately clear if the injured passenger remained in hospital later Friday.

Passengers told Greek media that they heard a loud bang, oxygen masks dropped and the plane began to lose altitude.

One passenger, identified only as Christina, told Radio Thessaloniki that some passengers panicked and screamed and that one passenger was partially sucked out of the window.

“His whole head, neck, shoulders” were pulled out of the window, she said, adding that those seated near him pulled him back in.

“Most people had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes,” she said. “We heard a sound, I’d describe it like a tire bursting … but very loud. We knew straight away we lost pressure because we lost altitude.”

She said that there were “screams, shrieks, shouting.”

The aircraft was a Boeing 737-800, which can seat up to 189 passengers. The plane was delivered new to Ryanair in 2008, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.