Ryan Air makes emergency landing

[Decode]

Theres a video on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7719716.stm

Bird-hit jet in emergency landing


Several passengers and crew suffered minor injuries in the landing




Rome's Ciampino airport has temporarily closed after a Ryanair flight from Frankfurt suffered "substantial damage" as it made an emergency landing.
The budget airline said the plane had experienced problems after birds were sucked into the engine as it came in to land at Rome's second-largest airport.
Passengers left the Boeing 737 using emergency chutes.
The plane remains on the runway with one engine resting on the tarmac because of damage to the landing gear.
It is being examined by Ryanair engineers and the Italian Aviation Authority.
People were crying, it was terrible, it was a bad experience


Ryanair passenger

Ryanair said the airport, which hosts several budget airlines, was likely to remain closed for the rest of Monday.
Ryanair flight FR4102 from Frankfurt to Rome had 166 passengers on board.
Reports say two cabin crew and at least three passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries. One passenger said an engine had begun to smoke as the plane was coming in to land and it then descended rapidly.

Passengers describe the emergency Ryanair landing in Rome

"People were crying, it was terrible," he added.
Another passenger said he thanked God that nobody had died.
A picture of the plane on the Ryanair website appeared to show red marks on the nose cone and wings - presumably from the birds.
Other Ryanair flights would be diverted to Rome's other airport, Fiumicino, until Ciampino was re-opened, the airline said.
At least 219 people have been killed worldwide since 1988 as a result of wildlife strikes to aircraft, according to the organisation Bird Strike Committee USA.
A US Federal Aviation Administration study has found that between 1990 and 2007, more than 82,000 wildlife strikes were reported at more than 1600 American airports.
The phenomenon causes billions of dollars of damage to aircraft worldwide.

[xxMATTGxx]

Bird Strikes, very common. Must of been a flock of them to be honest, blood all over the nose and everything. Congrats to the pilots for doing their job and getting the plane down safety without any major problems

[Pyroka]

Poor RyanAir, its funny how they're the only company who'd be in the news for an emergency landing. Funny that.

[Yoshimitsui]

Did the gear collapse on landing then? Or where the doors damaged by the strike?

[N!ck]

Poor RyanAir, its funny how they're the only company who'd be in the news for an emergency landing. Funny that.

You can't help it if a bunch of suicidal birds jump in your engine though .

[Pyroka]

I know, but it's funny how RyanAir get targeted for this. I'm not blaming RyanAir for it, it's the media I'm a bit irritated about.

[cocaine]

Poor RyanAir, its funny how they're the only company who'd be in the news for an emergency landing. Funny that.

ryanair (at this time of writing) have had no aircraft written off.

over at airliners.net there was a speculation of a double engine failure due to the bird strike. doubt its true

[Nemo]

i still dont understand how people got injured D:

[IceNineKills]

Poor birds.

[British]

The media always targets RyanAir. :rolleyes: