Ryan Air off the runway in AAR
 

In the danish news

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2006/02/06/110655.htm

Says aircraft nosewheel slid off in low speed, slippery conditions, noone hurt, pax taken to terminal, will be investigated.

Airport closed UFN, as aircraft is blocking runway.

Weather AAR/EKAH
 

METAR ekah 061020z 21007kt 170v250 5000 -ra few003 bkn006 bkn028 01/01 q1017 99590219=

TAF-FC AMD ekah 061015z 061018 23012kt 5000 -rasn sct005 bkn015 becmg 1012 1200 radz bkn002 tempo 1218 4000 -ra br sct003 bkn008=

Snow tam reads....Rwy...previous report repeated / Deposit ...Wet Snow / Extent....51%-100% / Depth ...2mm / Braking Action.....POOR

I think MOL will charge the passengers for the extra bus trip to the terminal...:hmm:

On a serious note: glad nobody got hurt and look forward to see the full report develop on Pprune prior the official one. :\

If this wx is correct, the crew breached Ryanair SOPs. Min braking action is 0.26!

If this is the 712 due at 09.55 on the morning of Monday 6 February (and it seems to be) the Ryanair website is stating that it Arrived On Time !

So doubtless it will be credited to their punctuality stats for the month.

From the AAR website...
 

STATEMENT

Flight FR712 from London Stansted landed normally in Aarhus at 09.41 (local) and came to a stop on the runway. As the aircraft was taxiing towards the terminal, the nose wheel slid from the snow covered runway onto the grass verge.

All Passengers were disembarked safely from the aircraft using the rear steps and were bussed to the main terminal. The aircraft suffered no damage and our engineers are on route to move the aircraft to the terminal building.

Passengers on the outbound (Aarhus – London flight) are being provided with assistance and will be re-accommodated on a flight later today from Aarhus.

Additional information

Aircraft Boeing 737-800
Passengers on board 105
Crew on board 6

AAR website also indicates airport closed until at least 19.00. All flights in and out currently cancelled. The 10.20 FR713 to London is showing expected departure time of 22.50 (Which is the normal departure time for FR715)

"slid from the snow covered runway onto the grass verge"

Did the leg fold or did it find a hole? See photo above.

Unfortunately aircraft normally dig their own.

Surely the way their sector pay ramps up would not have influenced their judgement..... Would it?

How fast were they taxying?

That's hardly reasonable comment in the absense of any evidence. Thankfully it happened at taxi speed and no one was hurt. I could speculate on a wide variety of subjects that may have caused this without even mentioning the company but it wouldn't be fair at this time.

Seen a few Ryans at my airport...taxi speed, landing speed and take off speed seem to be very similar from what i've seen

:D :D

After landing and during the 180 degree turn for backtracking, the nosewheel slid of the rwy edge. So both main wheels are on the runway and the nosewheel is of the pavement. There was no drama at all, according to pax, as the aircraft was at a very, very slow speed.

Just a sinking feeling I presume. :ugh:

If it was too slippery to taxy you can bet that the landing roll was quite exciting! :eek: What do those red lights mean?

Whatever speed they were at, even if only 5 kts, was too fast for conditions to make that turn.

B/A Poor with 2mm snow suggests ice underneath, which is v.v.nasty!

P.S There but for the grace of god!! Will be interested to see the full facts when they emerge.

FR and the full facts don't appear in the same sentence :eek: High speed and FR do though

OK an unfortunuatly mishap by the looks of it, I don't think for now that there is any reason to get all worked up about this.
Unless off course Leo will give information in the typical Leo fashion, but I guess even he does not waste any time on this.
Bad luck for the passengers that were stranded today.