'Ryanair, you just screwed everything'

[Nicola_M]

'Ryanair, you just screwed everything'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283617/Ryanair-just-screwed-What-Dublin-Airport-flight-controller-told-airline-plane-forced-jets-abort-landing.html

Aviation authorities are investigating a serious incident at Dublin Airport in which a Ryanair plane taxied the wrong way down a runway on which other planes were about to land.

 

Ryanair flight FR227, from ­London Stansted to Dublin, missed its exit and made a 180-degree turn at the end of the runway, before heading back the way it had come – causing other flights to abort or delay landings.
Dramatic recordings of Air Traffic Control communications describe how the Ryanair flight had to ‘brake hard’. Other planes were ordered ‘go around’.
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating the incident, in which FR227 attempted another unauthorised turn before being directed onto another exit.

 

After the incident, another Ryanair plane, EI-DWR, addressed as Three Whiskey Romeo, asks the tower: ‘What was wrong with the runway?’
The control tower replies: ‘Well what happened was one of your company aircraft landed on runway 28, appeared to be going to the very end of the runway and just before they got to Bravo 7 [a runway exit], they made a 180 degree turn which, uh, just screwed everything.’

 

In the incident, FR-227 had been cleared to land on Runway 28.
After landing, air traffic control called the crew and requested they ‘expedite vacating the runway’ which the crew acknowledged.
Almost immediately, the incredulous­-sounding controller asked the crew: ‘227, have you made a 180?’. The response from the crew was: ‘Affirm.’

The controller immediately alerted the next incoming aircraft, Aer Lingus flight EI-249 from London Gatwick, telling it: ‘Go around.’
The Aer Lingus plane – about to land on Runway 28, where FR-227 was now taxiing the wrong way – aborted its landing and flew around the airport to come in for another approach. While Aer Lingus flight EI-249 had not been cleared to land, the flight was less than a minute from touchdown when the crew was forced to abort.
The controller also advised the crew of the next inbound flight, Aer Lingus EI-627 from Copenhagen: ‘Possible go-around now, traffic has made a 180 on the runway.’

 

Ryanair 227 then called the tower to advise it they were turning off at taxiway Echo 7.
The tower controller told the pilot: ‘No, you can’t make that turn. You’ve got to all the way down the runway to Echo 5.
This meant that the Ryanair jet had to travel almost halfway back down the 2.6km runway. No other aircraft could land or take off until the aircraft had cleared the runway.
Soon afterwards, the controller confirmed to flight EI-627 that it too would have to abort its landing and go around. The tower next made several attempts at finding out from Ryanair 227 exactly why it had made the unauthorised 180-degree turn rather than continue to the end of the runway and exit at Bravo 7.
The crew explained they’d had issues with the landing and had had to brake hard.

While the runway was effectively closed for less than 15 minutes, a total of eight flights were affected.
It’s likely that the incident cost both Ryanair and Aer Lingus thousands of euro in extra fuel. Hundreds of passengers were delayed.
Ryanair came under fire late last year after three of its planes made emergency landings in Valencia, Spain, in just one day.

Budget airlines. Budget training.  First Class screw-ups.











 

Edited February 26, 2013 by Nicola_M

[Tonka]

Its not as bad as the Daily Mail would make out. Typical sensationalist reporting from them!

[Nicola_M]

Don't see anything sensationalist there. They've explained concisely that FR227 made an unauthorised  180 on the active (which I'm guessing is about the biggest cardinal sin you can do on an airfield other than dumping your toilet contents at the jetway), causing 8 flights to be given immediate go-arounds.

Edited February 26, 2013 by Nicola_M

[Tonka]

Yeah, the 180 wasn't good, but they write as if aircraft can't go around if something prevents them from landing!

[Nicola_M]

Er, I what exactly would an aircraft taxiing back down the runway in the wrong direction constitute then?  At the very least that prevents them from landing. 

Until the offender's off the runway anyway.

 

In fact it states FR227's "made a 180-degree turn at the end of the runway, before heading back the way it had come – causing other flights to abort or delay landings."

So I have to say they've been quite restrained (for the DM) and factual.

 

[Orcair]

Sneakily delaying their business opponents >

 

Its O'Leary.... I would not put it past him.

[Dozer]

Thanks for copying the article so I don't need to visit the Daily Mail's site!

[Colin S]

Just found this on Wikipedia about them: (...) the previous year. In this time, more than 3,000 flights were cancelled (...)

 

I'd LOVE to see ANY airline top that cancellation count. That is hilarious.

[clavel9]

Just found this on Wikipedia about them: (...) the previous year. In this time, more than 3,000 flights were cancelled (...)

 

I'd LOVE to see ANY airline top that cancellation count. That is hilarious.

I'd like to see that figure as a percentage of the total number of flights flown. Given the enormous number of Ryanair flights compared to their rivals, the figure is meaningless as a standalone number, representing about 0.5% of the total. Ryanair operate over half a million flights per year. British Airways, for example, cancelled 2% of flights in/out of Heathrow alone in 2008.

Edited March 11, 2013 by merisi

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