Ryanair Incident

Delta Kilo

A bird control official teft his van on the runway at Parma airport. Seems he ran away when he saw the plane coming. Why didn't he just drive the thing away? Looks like another error with Italian ATC!

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DHR performing flight FR-4215 from Parma (Italy) to London Stansted,EN (UK) with 189 passengers, rejected takeoff at high speed (around 105 knots), when the crew spotted a car on the runway ahead of them. The airplane stopped safely ahead of the car.

The airplane could depart again about 60 minutes later after the brakes had cooled down and reached London with 80 minutes delay.

The Italian National Agency for Aviation Safety (ANSV) have launched an investigation into the incident, that is thought to be the result of a miscommunication between the car driver, and the control tower. The car belonged to a bird control official, who was inspecting the runway to scare birds off the runway. He raced off the runway when he realized the 737 had started their takeoff roll.

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CaptainSkidmark

thats ridiculous!!!! Communication error there between the bird man and the tower???

kaizersoze

Thats mad. Whats the stopping distance for a 737 at 105 knots?

Latchy

Tsk .....Steve McQueen in same situation would have just rolled under the plane and still got his man

highlydebased

To add, todays RYR1009 EGAE-EGBB suffered multiple birdstrikes and diverted to Dublin

pclancy

Thanks for reporting that Neon.

CaptainSkidmark

Neon-Circles wrote: »

To add, todays RYR1009 EGAE-EGBB suffered multiple birdstrikes and diverted to Dublin

I hate seeing stuff like that happen to ryanair, Just gives a minority more to complain about.

mickoneill30

CaptainSkidmark wrote: »

Just gives a minority more to complain about.

I'd say those birds would have something to complain about

trad

Full marks to the Ryanair Crew.

boonen

Wow scary. Idd, kudos to the crew

APM

kaizersoze wrote: »

Thats mad. Whats the stopping distance for a 737 at 105 knots?

Would have no idea what the stopping distance is of a B737-800, because there are far too many variables to take into consideration such as how heavy the aircraft was, wind direction/speed, the slope of the runway, state of the runway (wet or dry), etc etc but what I do know is the brakes will be at maximum exertion and they get extremely hot.

Well done to the crew

Here's a vid of a high speed rejected take-off to give the idea of how quickly they get hot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4LFErD-yls