Comments on: Ryanair plane crashes off runway in Prestwick

By: nathan

nathan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:33:57 +0000

ihate ryanair

By: A 2 B

A 2 B — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:40:00 +0000

There will be a report published by the AAIB in the near future into exactly what happened to this aircraft. All armchair pilots and those who claim to be a professional pilot ought to know better than to offer pointless comments on what happened… how the hell do you know that the antiskid system didnt fail or the engines remained at high idle or whatever?? . have you ever heard of the term ‘by the grace of god go I’???

By: admin

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:19:37 +0000

Hi Pedro,

What about the Air Berlin flight? Can you explain your point please?

This is a Ryanair related website. We have no axe to grind with Air Berlin.

Go away.

IHR

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:50:03 +0000

What about air berlim flight?

By: Graham park

Graham park — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:16:41 +0000

I did think when the plane landed that the pilot appeared to be in control, but the plane was taxiing very fast, for the condition of the runway. It should also be noted that a arlingus flight left Dublin @ 6:30am and was refused to land at Edinburgh and diverted to prestwick and landed SAFELY 15 minuets before the ryanair flight slid of the runway.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:33:11 +0000

@StickMonkey

Thanks for your comment. On closer inspection of the photos, we were thinking the same thing. There is no sight of the taxi way and the nose wheel is well and truly dug in. Look at the length of the skid marks in the mud too.

Ryanair were very quick to come out with a statement on what happened, keen to try to keep it low profile.

We’d be keen to know more about speed limits for taxi? You mention <60kts, surely that’s way too fast?!?

Ryanair incidents all seem to be related to being in a rush. Its only a matter of time before something nasty happens and people are killed.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:49:16 +0000

They also charge £5 to slide down the emrgency shutes, extra £5 if wearing life vest. This is an “optional” extra as you still have the option to jump out the aircraft.

By: michael o leary

michael o leary — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:48:25 +0000

At least we sell a very nice calendar you dirty bastards!

By: phil

phil — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:20:41 +0000

@admin LOL

By: stickmonkey

stickmonkey — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:36:26 +0000

Meh, the press release said that “a normal landing was completed and while taxiing from the runway the aircraft encountered ice and slid just off the runway onto the grass verge”.

What a load of twaddle. The pictures clearly show that the aircraft nosewheel and mainwheels are firmly embedded in plenty of muck. If it was a taxy-related incident, you’d expect to see just the nosewheel in the earth and also expect to see the taxiway -somewhere- in the same photo.

If this was a taxy incident, it was the Ryanair Super-taxi™ technique… i.e. >60kts. My guess (I stress it’s just my guess) is either a genuine overrun, or the pilots trying to avoid an overrun by exiting the r/w at too fast a speed.

(FWIW, I operate 737’s for a living)