Ryanair Makes Emergency Landing in Madrid, Technical Issue
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A Ryanair flight from Paris flying to Tenerife Island in Canarys diverted for an emergency landing at Madrid-Barajas Airport (Spain) on Sunday after an undisclosed technical issue.
Big News Network reports:
‘The emergency landing Sunday was the latest in a series of problems plaguing the discount airline, which has headquarters in Dublin. On Saturday, a Ryanair plane made an emergency landing in Barcelona after an engine failed. On Thursday, turbulence on forced a flight from Dusseldorf to Palma de Mallorca to make an emergency landing, injuring two crew members and a passenger, ThinkSpain said. A loss of cabin pressure Sept. 7 brought down oxygen masks on a flight from Madrid to Gran Canaria shortly after the plane took off, forcing the pilot to return to the airport.’
There were 160 passengers on board and no reported injuries.
Airnation.net’s attempts to determine the exact cause of the problem were not answered by Ryanair.
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Why is it that the only news I read from one of the best airlines in the world is bad news?
EI-EBL – Question: Would you like to see more news like airfare sales and similar news? Our stats show people won’t read that stuff because it’s boring. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
All I’m saying is a bit of good news for Ryanair would not be bad. But as Michael O’Leary says any publicity is good publicity (unless its about safety).
Considering Ryanair has 300+ aircraft in service, it seems to me that their safety record is in fact exemplary.
The media love to criticise Ryanair because for some reason its popular to knock success in this way.
The Ryanair fleet is one of the youngest in Europe, and the 737-800NG is one of the most reliable aircraft in service today. Remember the basic design of the machine is some 50 years old – so most of the teething troubles have been ironed out by now !!
Any airline can suffer engine failure at any time – its not necessarily a symptom of poor maintenance or any other shortcoming on the part of the airline. Its then that you rely on the ability and experience of the flight crew to manage the situation, and to date Ryan’s pilots have proved to be very capable.
I have no connection with Ryanair, other than it is my airline of choice – I have been flying with them since they had just 2 BAE 748′s on their fleet; then through the Rom-BAC phase; on into the ex-Britannia 737-200 era (and others) up to the present – and have enjoyed the flight experience very much on every occasion – even when the “Hertz” 737 was hit by lightning over Gatwick due to the air traffic controllers instructing the pilot to hold in the middle of a thunder cell!