I am told that Spanish ATC was in meltdown and stopped responding to repeated requests to divert from the Ryanair aircraft, this resulted in at least one Ryanair aircraft telling ATC that he was taking up a heading for the diversion airfield.
Perhaps someone has the ATC tapes and we can find out is the Spanish government outrage towards Ryanair is justified or is this an attempt to cover up the shortcomings of the ATC system.
If one reads the Spanish press Ryanair are getting a slagging out of all proportion to the incidents that they have had and I am wondering what is driving this ?