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In fairness it looks like a company hired in due to the fact that he cant get pilots to work for him. All the same it was a Ryanair flight number with Ryanair passengers.
Plane lands at airbase by mistake
In fairness it looks like a company hired in due to the fact that he cant get pilots to work for him. All the same it was a Ryanair flight number with Ryanair passengers.
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This is absolutely hilarious the pilot is going to be in for some stick!! What of the co-pilot had they any clue at all?
That link to the BBC story says "It is not yet clear how the plane will be removed from the Army base".
As far as I know there's only one way to get a plane out of an airport!
The problem will be the runway. It needs to conform to certain criteria, length, width, gradient, nearby obstacles, surface etc. Just because they managed to land there doesn't mean it will be easy to take off.
Upgrading the runway will cost money. Could prove a major headache for Eirjet. If it was in Irish territory O'Leary would just order a take-off, but like it or not that is CAA country.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismark
Didn't BM make a mistake like that at Belfast, a few years back?[/code]
Yea they landed at Langford lodge or Nutts corner close to Aldergrove. That was many years ago. They had to rebuild part of the old runway to get it airborn again. Was it BA though?
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I love the way RTE TV News described it as a Mystery Tour!
They landed in one of the longest runways in Ireland, taking off won't be a problem. I sympathise with the pilot, the two airports are quite close and geographically similar(both on the same bank of Lough Foyle, and 6 miles apart). It's just a pity it wasn't a suicide job on the Brit camp. :wink:Originally Posted by Hooked
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Not half as much as building one from scratch, as happened in 1983 (I think), when a South American pilot made an emergency landing on Mallow Racecourse (he was likely to crash-land, and was directed there by an Air Traffic Controller in Shannon who knew the area). He hung around Mallow for several weeks while they built a runway, and then flew home. Its on "Reeling in the Years".
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