Ryanair flight hits 'turbulence'. 3 injured. Emergency landing
funfly,
You said:
"The flying public demand cheap flying, why are they so surprised when cheap means unsafe and when cheap means uncomfortable."
With all due respect to your larger flying experience comparing to mine, I am under the impression that safe airline flying is my right as a citizen of a European Country, and people at the national CAA are paid for just that reason. The airlines are obliged to meet a minimum safety standard and CAA is supposed to keep the bar high enough to have safe operations.
When very early in the decade we had an EMS helicopter accident I was more worried about how effective is the national aviation authority rather how good was the accident operator.
And one more think: how many accidents an airline (not a "national" one like for example Air France) can have before being closed down? I hope it makes sense.
Rwy in Sight
You said:
"The flying public demand cheap flying, why are they so surprised when cheap means unsafe and when cheap means uncomfortable."
With all due respect to your larger flying experience comparing to mine, I am under the impression that safe airline flying is my right as a citizen of a European Country, and people at the national CAA are paid for just that reason. The airlines are obliged to meet a minimum safety standard and CAA is supposed to keep the bar high enough to have safe operations.
When very early in the decade we had an EMS helicopter accident I was more worried about how effective is the national aviation authority rather how good was the accident operator.
And one more think: how many accidents an airline (not a "national" one like for example Air France) can have before being closed down? I hope it makes sense.
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A first hand account of the incident: I find two salient points. 1) the proximity to the wx during avoiding (possibly with seat-belt sign off since carts were out, and 2) the issue of 'heavy' hand luggage which consequently proved to be an injury-causing safety concern.
9 September,2010 is a date which 170 air passengers shall remember forever.
Two passengers and a steward had to receive medical treatment at a Bologna hospital after they were injured when their flight a Treviso bound Ryanair flight met a turbulence and had to make an emergency landing at Bologna's Marconi airport.
The incident happened at 20.20 on the 9 September 2010, when the flight that left Malta was reportedly caught up in a severe turbulence while descending on the Tyrrenian Sea. 40 of the passengers on board were Maltese.
According to the Bologna airport authorities, the plane hit two air-pockets causing the aircraft to buckle. The flight resumed its journey from Bologna to its destination at 11.30 p.m.
Maltastar.com spoke to one of the passengers about this incident.
According to the passenger the flight took off at 9pm.
“ I met some friends at the airport who were flying on Airmalta and Alitalia flights and these were both delayed by an hour. Our flight took off normally without delays and it was plain sailing for a while”
Little did the passengers know that 30 minutes later they would be passing through one of the worst nights of their lives.
“30 minutes into the flight we suddenly felt a surge of turbulence and the plane started to shake. I’m a regular passenger on flights and I know that these weren’t simple air-pockets that I’ve experienced before. In fact, it seems that right after this bout of turbulance, the airplane lost control and we just started spiralling downwards.”
Panic and shock gripped the passengers and many started to pray for their lives
“You can just imagine the panic that broke out in the plane. We started seeing bags flying everywhere and people were being thrown about while we spiralled downwards. We weren’t even given a signal to sit down or anything.”
“I saw one of the food trolleys that the stewards were pulling fall over one of the female cabin crew and another steward was thrown up hitting the emergency exit sign on the ceiling of the airplane suffering a head injury and bleeding very badly”
But that was not the only injury suffered in the whole ordeal.
Allegedly, three other persons had to be treated later on in hospital.
“People were screaming and everyone was crying, mostly the children. We all thought we were going to die”
Passengers confusion
“40 seconds later the pilot must have managed to regain control of the airplane, we stopped spiralling downwards and started flying normally again. We were expecting him to perform an emergency landing in the closest airport, which was Naples, however he decided to land in Bologna instead. I can’t understand why he didn’t land at the nearest airport.”
A huge lack of professionalism
“One of the cabin crew hurt her leg and she started to walk with a limp. She came up to me and asked me to help her open the cabin door when we landed in Bologna. There weren’t any ambulances waiting to take the injured people to a hospital, and our pilot wasn’t anywhere to be found. In fact, the six injured people had to be taken to a clinic by car. No one came about to even offer us something to drink, and all the shops at the airport were closed”
“The media reported that we continued our journey on the same plane, this isn’t true- after about two hours and a half waiting at the airport, the injured came back and we continued out flight to Treviso in a different plane”
Concluding, the passenger told us “I just thank God that I’m alive today; I swear I saw death personified on that night, and I’ll never forget it”
Two passengers and a steward had to receive medical treatment at a Bologna hospital after they were injured when their flight a Treviso bound Ryanair flight met a turbulence and had to make an emergency landing at Bologna's Marconi airport.
The incident happened at 20.20 on the 9 September 2010, when the flight that left Malta was reportedly caught up in a severe turbulence while descending on the Tyrrenian Sea. 40 of the passengers on board were Maltese.
According to the Bologna airport authorities, the plane hit two air-pockets causing the aircraft to buckle. The flight resumed its journey from Bologna to its destination at 11.30 p.m.
Maltastar.com spoke to one of the passengers about this incident.
According to the passenger the flight took off at 9pm.
“ I met some friends at the airport who were flying on Airmalta and Alitalia flights and these were both delayed by an hour. Our flight took off normally without delays and it was plain sailing for a while”
Little did the passengers know that 30 minutes later they would be passing through one of the worst nights of their lives.
“30 minutes into the flight we suddenly felt a surge of turbulence and the plane started to shake. I’m a regular passenger on flights and I know that these weren’t simple air-pockets that I’ve experienced before. In fact, it seems that right after this bout of turbulance, the airplane lost control and we just started spiralling downwards.”
Panic and shock gripped the passengers and many started to pray for their lives
“You can just imagine the panic that broke out in the plane. We started seeing bags flying everywhere and people were being thrown about while we spiralled downwards. We weren’t even given a signal to sit down or anything.”
“I saw one of the food trolleys that the stewards were pulling fall over one of the female cabin crew and another steward was thrown up hitting the emergency exit sign on the ceiling of the airplane suffering a head injury and bleeding very badly”
But that was not the only injury suffered in the whole ordeal.
Allegedly, three other persons had to be treated later on in hospital.
“People were screaming and everyone was crying, mostly the children. We all thought we were going to die”
Passengers confusion
“40 seconds later the pilot must have managed to regain control of the airplane, we stopped spiralling downwards and started flying normally again. We were expecting him to perform an emergency landing in the closest airport, which was Naples, however he decided to land in Bologna instead. I can’t understand why he didn’t land at the nearest airport.”
A huge lack of professionalism
“One of the cabin crew hurt her leg and she started to walk with a limp. She came up to me and asked me to help her open the cabin door when we landed in Bologna. There weren’t any ambulances waiting to take the injured people to a hospital, and our pilot wasn’t anywhere to be found. In fact, the six injured people had to be taken to a clinic by car. No one came about to even offer us something to drink, and all the shops at the airport were closed”
“The media reported that we continued our journey on the same plane, this isn’t true- after about two hours and a half waiting at the airport, the injured came back and we continued out flight to Treviso in a different plane”
Concluding, the passenger told us “I just thank God that I’m alive today; I swear I saw death personified on that night, and I’ll never forget it”
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Just a quick thing-what do u mean an onboard radar didnt show anything or pilots were avoiding WX closely?We all know here that onboard radars wont show u turbulent areas,and those areas will only be known only if there is a report made by someone passing through.And thats it.And turbulence isnt necessarily withing WX(i think u mean CB or thunderstorm activity which can be shown on the radar).
So if there werent any traffic passing through area earlier and there was no report -how on earth could the pilot know about that gd turbulence?
Second thing-we all fly with Ryanair and we all see how people are always trying to fit the most ridiculous things into the cabin-thats their problem.And even if there s a sign to have a seat belt on there still will be people hanging around like they dont care,
Did it ever occur to someone who complains-maybe pilots needed some extra time to check all the systems and all the things so that airplane could perform safe landing after being hit with that sev turb?and this is why pilot didnt land at whats seemed to you the nearest airport?or there might have been another turbulent area pilot or ATC were aware of.Everything is done for a reason.
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WX radar WILL show turbulence, within a cell. It WON'T show CAT. As for the turbulence around a cell, well, that's why most airlines have standard procedures for minimum distances from cells. (recently revised at my company, I might add)
