Apart from the Daily Mail reporting, relatively restrained as they avoided 'wrestling with the controls' and so on, some of the reader comments are priceless :
There seems to a lot more incidents of engine trouble on planes, why is that? Is the drive for cost cutting effecting maintenance? These days planes are operated like taxis and we know how some of them are looked after.
Pictures and video from YouTube, passenger quotes from "online" (presumably Twitter or Facebook). Journalism at its best! At least we can be confident that the Mail wasn't involved in phone hacking, as that would have required effort...
Well done "MoS Reporter", you got most of the cliches in there. But you forgot to mention the pilot wrestling with the controls to avoid hitting a Nursery School / Orphanage / Home for Cute Little Kittens (delete as applicable). But not a bad effort, 7/10 for hysterical exaggeration, and the usual 0/10 for actual facts.
if it's a Boeing, I'm not going!
My heartfelt sympathy to those in the plane - and anyone else holidaying in Spain for that matter.
DM reporter, it would have helped if you had done some research before you even wrote this horrible piece. Horrible because it is in accurate and blown out of proportion a 1000 times. By the way, it is not called backfiring, it is called a engine surge. Althoug an abnormal event, the pilots have SOP to recover from it. The only terrifying thing about a surge is the noise i.e the noise is similar to a exploding bomb.
A Ryanair plane would never do that.
If this was in the USA the Pilot would have already met the President, he would be fully booked on Talk-Show circuit for the next six-months, the Biography deal would have been signed, a Discovery Channel documentary would air tomorrow nite and the screenplay would have been written for the feature film. But typical Brit, he just takes in his stride and treats it as all in a normal days work. Perhaps thats just what it was?
surely there was a closer airport to land at ,77 minutes must have felt like a lifetime
Firstly, jet engines don't back fire, they surge and yes there is a big difference between the two. Secondly DM reporter if you think they are thirty foot flames, I can only wonder what your wife/girlfriend thinks 6 inches look like....
Having flown this route with this airline I know model of plane hasa high pitched whiny engine noise anyway and sounds really odd when on board. I have always bee wary of this model of plane.
Must have re-fueled the thing on a vindaloo.
Just a couple of plugs need replacing, probably. Could be to do with the points of course, or maybe there a bit of water in the petrol . . .