Off Bloomberg:
Ryanair Plane Runs Off Runway in Lodz, Poland; Airport Closes
By Tracy Alloway and Nathaniel Espino
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- A Ryanair Holdings Plc plane
carrying 170 passengers went off the runway at Poland's Lodz
airport while taxiing for takeoff.
The nose wheel of the Boeing Co. aircraft sank into the
ground off the beginning of the runway, Dublin-based Ryanair said
today in an e-mailed statement. Passengers on flight FR1624 from
Lodz to East Midlands airport in England left the plane normally
and were bused back into the terminal, the airline said. No one
was injured, according to the carrier.
``The plane went off the pavement while taxiing and the
wheels got stuck in the mud,'' said Milosz Wika, a spokesman for
Lodz airport. ``The airport has been closed and traffic has been
re-routed to Warsaw. We'll probably be closed for the rest of the
day, because we can't move the Ryanair plane. We're waiting for
engineers to move it.''