Last Updated: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 13:43Ryanair plane returns to Dublin after take-off incident
A Ryanair flight was forced to return to Dublin airport today after the back of the aircraft hit the runway during take-off.
The airline said "protective tailskid" at the back of the plane struck the runway as it took off and the pilot returned to the airport as a precaution.
A spokeswoman for the airline described it as a “tail-strike” and said it was quite common.
“As a precautionary measure the aircraft returned with oxygen masks deployed and landed safely in Dublin,” the spokeswoman said.
"All 148 passengers disembarked normally, were given refreshments and will be re-accommodated in the next two flights to London Stansted".
The flight took off from Dublin en route to Stansted at 11.40am and no one was injured.
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Rhodes13 says: Futurebreeze how about you stop making **** up! If he had a tail strike on takeoff they would not have pressurised the aircraft as it states in the QRH and would have thus returned to land at EIDW.
and now, hopefully, he'll explain why the airline spokeswoman said that the aircraft had indeed suffered a tail strike and then why the aircraft landed with the oxygen masked deployed!!!
That only happens:
a: when the cabin altitude goes above 14000 (I seem to recall) i.e. a depressurisation,
b: the crew manually deploy them.
Over to you Rhodes.........
PS as you berated Future breeze publicly, perhaps you will apologise publicly too!