Ridiculous. Enough is enough from them. O’Leary & his mob seem to make everything an ordeal for passengers rather than making flying with them easy. It’s seems to me a case of a struggling airline trying to fleece as much money as possible from passengers with these ridiculous extra charges.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had many reasonable trips with Ryanair in the past, but I’m now extremely unlikely to fly with them & I hope this massively backfires on them.

Nice little report. Not normally a fan of BA, been quite average every time I’ve flown with them, but I will probably miss the 737s once they’re all gone, there’s just something about them which makes them special.

Sorry to hear that, Robbie. Happens to most people, fortunately it didn’t happen to me, but I’m sure you’ve plenty of other offers on UCAS that you like.

Have you heard from all 5 now? Now the tricky bit of deciding where to go/what course comes!

Great shots, Tom. Never visited there either – the idea of waiting around all day for not a lot of activity has never really been that appealing, unless it was lovely sunny day. 🙂

Sounds a bit of a minor event. If posted on PPRUNE no doubt quite a few of them will tear into these sort of news items as they always do with technical diversions! 🙂

Seems extremely cheeky to impose such a tax. Mind you, I couldn’t see it happening and I’m sure many passengers would be unhappy, needless to say especially on the longer routes.

I highly doubt that is the case. Even if it was a system fault (giving an inaccurate fuel reading – i.e no fuel emergency) there are no reports that the aircraft had to hold for vast amounts of time.

Look at the BA 772, there was no fire there but it had sufficient fuel.

I’m not here to make judgments on what could or couldn’t of happened, I just look forward to reading the investigation with interest.

Good point. I could even refer to my earlier example of the BY 757 @ Girona for another case of a hard crash but no blaze.

There’s quite a boring bit of ATC feed on the internet somewhere of mainly ground frequency post-accident (http://archive-server.liveatc.net/EHAM-Airport-Post-Crash.mp3). I wonder if anyone was recording the tower freq at this time, although that may not yield anything as by all accounts whatever happened was sudden.

From the photos I’ve seen it certainly looks like all onboard were very lucky. I too think an engine has come away. The way the aircraft broke up and the pictures remind me very much of the Britannia Airways 757 crash at Girona in 1999.

http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2009/2/25/250209_vliegtuig_schiphol.html