Friday morning, a chunk of engine debris punched through a Ryanair passenger window mid-flight from Greece to Germany. The cabin depressurized. A passenger near the window ended up with his head and shoulders outside the plane — actually outside, in the open air, at cruising altitude — until other passengers grabbed him and hauled him back in by his seatbelt. * BBC's headline: "Passenger 'nearly sucked out of window mid-air' on Ryanair-owned plane." Nearly. As in, didn't quite happen. As in, close call, no cigar. * Except the eyewitness account BBC's own story is built on says otherwise: "the head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window." That's not "nearly" anything. That's the actual event, mid-progress, stopped only by a seatbelt buckle and a few quick-handed strangers. * Bloomberg's headline on the same incident: "Ryanair Passenger Partly Sucked Out of Jet as Window Dislodges." Partly. Smaller word, bigger accuracy — it describes something that happened, not something that almost happened. * Ryanair's own statement made the whole thing sound like a delayed connecting flight: the plane "returned to Thessaloniki... landed normally and the passengers returned to the terminal." A man got physically pulled halfway out of an airplane window mid-flight and the airline's read on it is "landed normally." * Everyone survived — friction burns, a hospital visit, otherwise fine, genuinely lucky outcome. But "nearly sucked out" undersells a story where the sucking-out part already happened. It just didn't finish.