"If you find the time, I am sure we would still be interested to hear your version of events."
Two weeks after the event I have to wonder if any passengers are being asked for an account of what transpired on our flight, either by the relevant authorities or by the airline. Who is undertaking the investigation? Is there an investigation?
Is it coincidental that there was tension on the plane from before we took off in wet and buffeting conditions from CharIeroi. Where had the flight arrived at Charleroi from? What was that landing like, the conditions were not too disimilar to those we met later at Limoges.
It is our belief that there are serious lessons to be learned from this incident. There are serious implications for cabin crew training. There are serious implications for organisation culture in RYR. And there are significant broader implications for safety at, and the regulatory governance of European regional airports.
It would be all too easy to blame the pilot, or to blame the airport (or both) for what happened during our landing at Limoges. However, it was ultimately corporate interests above all others which determined that our flight land on time in very dodgy conditions at an airport that is in no way whatsoever equipped for a bad accident.
How long would it have taken a fleet of ambulances and medics to get to the airport? How long altogether to get injured passengers transferred to hospital? These are the thoughts that cross your mind when you have a lucky escape, as we had at Limoges.