Originally Posted by
Rob Bamber
I've just rewatched it (season 1, episode 10). In their tests they couldn't get a crash test dummy to be sucked out of the plane, in any scenario.
However, they did blow out the window in a manner very similar to this one, and in the footage you can see how traumatic it would be for the passenger sitting next to it. Sucked out: no chance.
The sense I got from the various reports is that whatever broke the window also hit & seriously injured the passenger, probably knocking her unconscious, and so her upper body ending up jammed in the window with her having been partially sucked out of it would fit with the reports...