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The Ryanair passenger who was partly pulled out of a Boeing 737 when a window was smashed during a flight earlier this month recounted his horrifying experience, saying he is lucky to be alive.

Ljubisa Karović, 61, was on a Ryanair flight operated by Malta Air from Thessaloniki, Greece, en route to Memmingen, Germany, on July 10 when debris believed to have come from the aircraft’s damaged engine struck and shattered a window shortly after departure.

The plane lost cabin pressure and was forced to make an emergency return to Thessaloniki. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said on Monday that preliminary findings suggested the engine may have suffered “foreign-object damage,” although the cause remains under investigation.

Karović, a Serbian entrepreneur, told The Guardian that it is the moments before the “chaos, the catastrophe” that keep him awake at night.

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“The explosion is what I remember,” Karović told the outlet. “It’s the noise before the chaos, the noise that is always there when I close my eyes to sleep.”

“They tell me I fainted twice and again inside the plane and that my face was briefly swollen and deformed because of the pressure, the rush of air,” he continued.

Karović managed to survive the near-death experience after his wife and other passengers grabbed him and pulled him back inside the aircraft.

His wife, Svetlana, was seated three rows back when she rushed over to grab her husband, who she said was “half in and out of the plane” for about two minutes.

“None of the cabin crew helped. It was the passengers,” she said. “One man, I think he was an Albanian, was incredible. He did all he could to bring him in and then tried to block the window, first with a bag that was immediately sucked out and then with a suitcase, which worked. We are eternally grateful to him.”

Ryanair disputed the suggestion that the crew failed to respond appropriately. The airline told The Guardian that during the depressurization and rapid descent, all passengers and crew were required to stay seated and put on oxygen masks, adding that the crew attended to Karović and arranged medical assistance once the aircraft descended to a safe altitude. Investigators have not yet publicly determined whether all required crew procedures were followed.

Karović was hospitalized after he suffered neck and shoulder injuries as well as friction burns. Doctors told Karović that his recovery will be slow, and he must wear a neck brace for the next six weeks, at which point a determination will be made about whether surgery is necessary.

“I am lucky,” Karović said. “I don’t remember much and my head and neck still hurt, but I am still alive.”

Karović said his seatbelt may have saved him from being completely pulled through the window, although he did not rule out other factors.

“It could have been the seatbelt, the fact that I was still strapped in,” Karović said. “But maybe it is fate.”

“I believe in God and I thank him every day,” he added.

Karović’s lawyer, Vasilis Tsiaras, said the man is “alive by mistake.”

WHY A BLOWN-OUT PLANE WINDOW NEARLY SUCKED A PASSENGER OUTSIDE AT 16,000 FEET

“Ljubisa dipped in and out of death,” Tsiaras said. “When the cabin lost pressure, he was hurled out of the window from his chest up and immediately lost consciousness. At 15,000 feet, he ended up with his head and right arm outside the aircraft as it moved at a speed of more than 600km/h [373 mph]. Imagine that!”

“He looked at death, that other world, and came back,” the lawyer added.

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Flight records show the aircraft, which was delivered new to Ryanair in 2008, had been climbing past 15,000 feet about six minutes after takeoff before then descending to about 6,000 feet. The aircraft remained at the lower altitude for about 30 minutes to burn fuel before returning to Thessaloniki about an hour after departure, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation after Greece’s Hellenic Air and Rail Safety Investigation Authority delegated the probe to the U.S. agency. Greek investigators are also participating.

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Good morning, and welcome to Hydro’s Second Quarter 2026 Presentation and Q&A. We will shortly begin with a presentation by President and CEO, Eivind Kallevik, followed by a financial update from CFO, Trond Olaf Christophersen. We will then finish off with a Q&A session. [Operator Instructions]

And with that, I turn the word over to you, Eivind.

Eivind Kallevik
CEO, President & Member of Corporate Management Board

Thank you, Erik, and good morning from me as well. I am pleased to present a strong set of results for the second quarter, supported by excellent operational performance across the company.

Overall, this is a solid quarter, but at the same time, the ongoing situation in the Middle East continues to impact the totality and affects the broader picture. As always, we begin with what matters most, safety. Safe operations and a safe working environment are the foundation for everything else that we report today. Because without them, none of our other results would matter. Keeping our people safe remains my highest priority and the highest priority for the entire management team. And wherever I travel across Hydro, one thing stands out, our people genuinely care about looking after each other. That commitment is one of our greatest strengths. And I am pleased to report that both our HRIs and TRIs remain at historically low levels.

The challenge now is really to avoid complacency because strong performance should never lead to lower vigilance. Instead, we must continue learning, improving and moving

Shares of AI-focused cloud hyperscaler E2E Networks surged 5% to hit the upper circuit at Rs 469 on Wednesday, marking a new 52-week high, after the company reported a net profit of Rs 44 crore in Q1FY27, compared with a net loss of Rs 28 crore in the year-ago quarter.

The company’s revenue from operations came in at Rs 157 crore for the quarter under review, registering a growth of 334% from Rs 36 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year, E2E said in a regulatory filing.

Margins shot up a massive 4,610 basis points YoY to 75.2% from 29.1% in the year-ago period. EBITDA stood at Rs 118 crore, up 1,023% from Rs 10.5 crore, E2E’s investor presentation showed.

Also read: Did this L&T-backed AI stock actually crash 90% in one day? Here’s all you need to knowE2E Networks said its B200 cluster was successfully deployed on the TIR platform and began contributing to revenue within its first quarter. The company also scaled its GPU infrastructure to approximately 5,100 GPUs and incorporated Sovcloud Technologies Limited as a wholly owned subsidiary.

The company is operating large GPU clusters on the TIR platform, with a focus on achieving industry benchmarks for NCCL and Model FLOPs Utilisation (MFU). It is also investing in organisational capabilities by strengthening its teams, while cluster performance is being driven through full-stack optimisations across multiple layers.

What lies ahead?

According to the company’s investor presentation, AI infrastructure is increasingly being viewed by governments and enterprises as a strategic national asset rather than a procurable utility. Against this backdrop, E2E Networks said India’s planned 8 GW-plus data-centre build-out is bringing sovereign computing capacity closer to scale, positioning the company as a domestic provider of AI infrastructure.
The company added that the AI infrastructure market remains structurally undersupplied as demand for GPUs for AI training and inference continues to exceed hyperscale capacity, driving investment towards specialised neocloud providers globally. Oppenheimer Research estimates the global sovereign AI infrastructure opportunity at $1.5 trillion this decade, while McKinsey estimates that $6.7 trillion in global data-centre capital expenditure will be required by 2030, with around 70% driven by AI.India is also building sovereign AI capacity at scale. According to Knight Frank India, the country’s total data-centre pipeline stands at 8.33 GW, more than five times the approximately 1.6 GW of live capacity today. Around $30 billion of investment is underpinning India’s data-centre capacity expansion, while the IndiaAI Mission has more than 38,000 GPUs. Mumbai and Chennai are emerging as key centres for AI capacity, with data-centre pipelines of 3.75 GW and 1.36 GW, respectively.

Read more: Will India’s AI multibaggers face a reality check as global bubble fears test valuations?

E2E Networks shares have risen 125% in the last six months, delivering multibagger returns to investors this year. In the last one year, the stock is up 88%.

E2E Networks is an AI-first cloud GPU platform. The company provides high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI and machine learning workloads, offering B200, H200, H100 and legacy GPU series, along with Linux, Windows, storage and managed cloud solutions from its data centres in Noida and Chennai.

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The pub group says it is facing higher costs for food, labour, repairs, energy and business rates

Shares in JD Wetherspoon tumbled on Wednesday after the pub giant issued its fourth profit warning of the year, as it battles soaring food and energy costs alongside a mounting business rates bill.

Tim Martin, the Devon-based founder and chairman of the UK’s best-known pub chain, said: “Profits for the year are likely to be below market expectations, with marginally lower sales than anticipated in the final quarter, combined with higher costs in the areas of food, labour, repairs, energy and business rates.”

Shares in the FTSE 250 pub chain dropped by more than nine per cent at Wednesday’s market open, to 686p, leaving the stock down seven per cent in the year to date.

This marks Wetherspoon’s second profit warning in three months, as climbing energy and supply costs triggered by the Iran war continue to squeeze the pub chain’s famously thin margins. The group’s £70m pre-tax profit target was already considerably short of last year’s £80m.

Back in May, Wetherspoon cautioned of “substantial increases in costs” arising from the conflict in the Middle East, as reported by City AM.

The pub boss had been flagging as early as March that escalating costs could compel him to raise pint prices.

“Rising energy costs are bad news for pubs. As well as direct increases for gas and electricity, they make customers poorer and also push up the costs for suppliers,” he said.

Wetherspoon reported that sales growth decelerated to four per cent in the final three months, down from 4.8 per cent in the first half of the year, it confirmed on Wednesday. The pub chain has repurchased £42m worth of shares so far this year, alongside acquiring the freehold rights to four of its premises at a cost of £12.2m.

Net debt is expected to stand at £720m by year-end, unchanged from the previous year.

Wetherspoon has disposed of nine pubs and acquired eight during the current financial year. The group runs 793 managed pubs and 23 franchised locations throughout the UK.

Alongside escalating costs stemming from the Iran war, pubs nationwide were hit with increased business rates bills in April, following alterations announced at last year’s Autumn Budget.

Martin has consistently championed reform of business rates, along with a reduction in value-added tax (VAT) which he maintains would align pubs’ tax burden with that of supermarkets.

The pub chain, renowned for its affordable pints, works on “relatively slender margins” when compared to its rivals, observed Duncan Ferris, an analyst at Freetrade.

“Wetherspoon’s busy pubs mean its value proposition is resonating with customers, but the ultimate goal is converting rising sales into rising profits,” he noted.

Competing pub chains including Fuller’s and Young’s have reported a substantial surge in revenue owing to the World Cup. Sales climbed by as much as 170 per cent at Marston’s’ “grandstand” sports bars during England fixtures.

In the run-up to the World Cup, Martin informed City AM that he was not anticipating a significant boost in sales from the tournament.

“Wetherspoon pubs aren’t regarded as sports venues, although many football supporters use our pubs before and after games. However, we are showing all World Cup games, so we’re hoping for a useful boost in trade, touch wood,” he said.

Ferris added: “Wetherspoon probably enjoyed its own World Cup boost, but thirsty football fans clearly were not enough to stop final-quarter sales from disappointing.”