From yesterday's Irish Independent
Runway scare as plane goes into skid
A TOTAL of 172 Dublin-bound passengers on board a Ryanair flight were terrified yesterday morning when their plane skidded down a runway and failed to take off.
Flight FR113 was forced to ground to a screeching halt when the pilot braked hard as the plane was moving at high speed at Gatwick Airport. The flight to Dublin was about to take off when the pilot decided to abort the attempt due to a technical fault.
A Ryanair spokesperson said there had been a problem with a rear light.
A group of journalists on board said they experienced a few moments of terror. "The blood drained out of my body," said one member of the group. "The pilot sped up and I noticed there was something amiss because it was taking beyond the normal time to take off.
"Then he hit the brakes all of a sudden and a couple of people screamed. There was a loud noise because we were moving at high speed, like after a plane lands, and that caused a lot of people to panic. It was very scary."
The plane later got the all-clear from technicians to resume the flight. It arrived in Dublin an hour behind schedule.