Ryanair Jet Lands at Wrong Airport
 

Ryanair jet - Ireland

landed at a military airport instead of commercial

Priceless

And I had just read a story on first buses which I thought would be my transport slack safety shocker for the day...

Edinburgh Evening News

But the Ryanair/Eirjet takes the biscuit. Will anything actually come of it though, I assume that ryanair will wash their hands of it to Eirjet ?

Typical LCC attitude trying to get away with just an AtoZ. Proper airlines like BA have Tom Tom Sat Nav units. ;)

"It is not yet clear how the plane will be removed from the Army base."

By flying away, one assumes. :rolleyes:

Could be that the runway is not long enough for it to take off again.

Maybe it's too big. ISTR that a plane mistook RAF Northolt for Heathrow many years ago and it had to be dismantled cos it was too heavy to take off.

There's a thread on the Ryanair incident here:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=219465

Plenty long enough. They used to have a bunch of Shackletons based there, and the runways were extended sometime in the 60's to take bombers in a pinch.

This is almost as good as the NWA DC-10 that landed at Brussels about 10-15 years ago, with the crew under the impression they were landing at FRA. Most of the passengers knew where they really were, as the mapping feature on the IFE had the location on the screen.

That maybe be so however the runways may have since been re-classified with certain sections in a bad condition and therefore most of it is probably unused with shurbs growing from cracks in what once a runway. :rolleyes:

It says in the report it is used by light aircraft and helicopters which would probably only require 1/3rd of the length of its former self if not less.

Runways are costly things to maintain and if most of it isn't going to be used again they simply discard the rest and only maintain a certain length for cost reasons.

So...this could be a rather costly excercise for the airline or be prepared for a few burst tyres on take off.

Then again, an empty A320 doesn't need that much really. (Which is what it looks like from the picture)

I wonder what happened the ready at a moments notice chaps at the RAF?

NEWS CLIP HERE

Priceless that in an age of so called high security that an army base which has been bombed previously allowed an aircraft anywhere near it let alone land.

And that has made my day. :p

I've been on a Cape Air flight where the pilot (after chacking for nervous flyers) has said words to the effect of;

"We'll be flying over the Cape and down to the Islands, now this is a Nantucket flight, so if it looks like the Vineyard ahead and that I'm getting ready to land, will somebody please point out the mistake, don't want to do that again" :D

Very generous of Ryanair to provide a bus for the pax to get them to the right place - didn't think they offered that level of service...

Generous? Whats the betting they charged a fare? :p

Hope it wasn't a firstbus!

That reminds me of another LCC incident - pilot apparently didn't know how to land in the fog. I think there were a few choice moments on that flight as well.