From the person who took the picture in post #5. "Just "landed" in Birmingham. Plane did a rally slide into the grass after landing. Thanks Monarch!!"

Phew thank God its not a Ryanair or we would never hear the end of it..:ok:

BHX now open for both arrivals and departures again according to the latest update here.

TBIRDSIX

Couldn't be, it still had fuel on board :E

Is this a similar incident to the EK diversion that happened a couple of years ago with all that bad weather at the time?

Thunderbirdsix,

Surely the Captain used to fly for Ryanair............:eek:

It is a little unusual to see a 737 right at the end of the runway after landing as most vacate at taxiway B. Total landing distance to the end is approx 7500ft.

Not quite sure from the photos, am I correct in thinking this is at the departure end of 33?

Usually landing aircraft (of this size) have turned off at bravo

Road Hog
 

There are any number of reasons why this has happened from human error to mechanical failure of sort. It is 3-6 months too soon for anyone to speculate why.

Why are you thanking Monarch in a sarcastic manner? An aircraft operating for them has encountered an incident, cause unknown, no-one hurt, 2 hour suspension to operations, things now back to normal with some delays as a result - how is that the fault of Monarch??

One pax is quoted on the BBC as stating "it's the oldest aircraft I have ever flown on" - as if aircraft age/state/condition is the cause - what has that got to do with an incident the cause of which is unknown. The flight had taken place and landed - age of the aircraft is irrelevant.

BBC reports Monarch have suspended the use of Aurela

Well, it looks like 2.605m were not enough for a 737....

There's been an extensive discussion on the Airlines Airports and Routes forum about Monarch's arrangements for covering the summer timetable with Aurela and Air Explore,

Regardless of the specifics of this event it hasn't been a PR success for Monarch given the Tenerife ( I think) situation made the national news as well.

What on earth is Monarch doing subbing out to a LITHUANIAN company?
If I'd (been desperate enough to have) bought a ticket on Monarch I'd be mighty displeased to see I had to ride in that!

What is the world coming to?

Thunderbirdsix.
Like you I thought that a lot of people would be disappointed it wasn't Ryanair, but obviously they are getting their digs in anyway.

Perhaps you want to bother reading my post correctly and what I was replying to before you start spouting off. I replied to this question from another poster, "Did anyone see the landing? Did it overrun or just skid off?" You'll notice that the comment was in speech marks, i.e. I was quoting someone else, it was not my comment. So I was in no way being sarcastic, but even so, I felt it was a fair comment from someone that was on the plane.

Said as much in the Monarch press release, which also tells us that the aircraft "left the runway whilst taxiing to the terminal".

To be fair had it been Ryanair, most people would say oh another one!!:}

Road Hog
 

Fair point, I concede that I missed the quotation marks and as such should not have attributed them to you - apologies that that appears to have lit your fuse.