SEATTLE (AP) — James Greenway Sr., featured in newspapers around the world after he fell partway out of a commercial airliner in 1954, died Jan. 21 of complications from a stroke. He was 96.

Greenway was an active-duty Army Reserve officer when he flew to New York on a United Airlines DC-6 on Oct. 2, 1954. As he dozed with his seat belt loosened, 13,000 feet over Indiana, the emergency hatch beside his seat flew off, leaving him dangling partly outside the propeller-driven plane.

Greenway managed to reach back into the plane, and other passengers hauled him into the cabin, badly bruised and his clothing in tatters.

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Greenway retired in 1972 after a career with Carnation as a dairy and ice cream worker, manager and plant superintendent.

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