Wednesday, 17th September 2008

Malta-bound Ryanair flight from Luton encounters depressurisation problem

A Ryanair flight to Malta was diverted to Rome's Ciampino airport last Saturday after a depressurisation problem in the cabin, The Times has learnt.

The flight from London (Luton) - with 180 passengers and five infants under two - arrived five hours behind schedule, a spokesman for Malta International Airport confirmed.

According to the Aviation Herald, the flight experienced the problem while flying over Paris. The Herald said the crew did not declare an emergency and diverted to Ciampino.

The MIA spokesman said the flight arrived in Malta at 11.40 p.m. with the return flight leaving just under an hour later.

Attempts to contact a spokesman for the airline were unsuccessful with questions sent to Ryanair remaining unanswered at the time of writing.

Just three weeks ago another Ryanair flight - from Bristol to Barcelona - was forced to make an unscheduled landing at France's Limoges airport when it lost cabin pressure. The airline had said that the flight, with 168 passengers on board, "experienced an in-flight depressurisation incident which caused the oxygen masks on board to deploy".

It said the captain descended and diverted the aircraft as a safety precaution.

Reuters had reported that 16 passengers had been taken to hospital complaining of earache and were released before continuing their journey to Girona by coach.

Comments

Fabien Sant Fournier (on 19/9/08)

...some very poor attempts at tarnishing Ryanair's reputation! This was an insignificant event...there was a problem with the pressurisation indicator & not with cabin pressure. Crew diverted to an FR base which would have maintainance available should there really be a problem.

ian brown (on 17/9/08)

You can`t knock Ryanair for this. They may be aggressive so and so`s, but they don`t compromise on safety. Their intense schedule means that more incidents could happen. Same as if you drive 1,000 kms a year, you`ve less chance of having an accident than someone who drives 25,OOOkms per year.

m farrugia (on 17/9/08)

Maltese travellers are surely not doubting Ryanair's safety records. Ryanair has become very popular with Maltese travellers and Airmalta's management and local travel agents are surely aware . It's very easy to get passenger lists from MIA.

m farrugia (on 17/9/08)

If not mistaken, Airmalta had two similar incidents, one of them on a flight from London which landed in Paris, two years ago in Summer.

Ryanair has over 100 planes servicing 436 low fare routes across 24 countries against Airmalta's 12.

Ryanair never criticised Airmalta on safety issues but rightly on pricing.

T Mifsud (on 17/9/08)

"Attempts to contact a spokesman for the airline were unsuccessful with questions sent to Ryanair remaining unanswered at the time of writing." ... let alone how much success one will have contacting them for a refund!

Warren Camilleri (on 17/9/08)

well well well what do we have here the same old same old with ryan AIr... thats what you get with low cost airlines everything has to be "low cost" even maintanece costs are cut back for them... its like every 6 months i hear something with ryanair involed! like flying with one engine?

hmmm or maybe land with none? hey wait isint there a similerty? they are Air bus drivers and we have land bus drivers that have the same character... so i wounder whats next more taxing?

Adrian Cardona (on 17/9/08)

another gem from J Farrugia.
You have Ryanair and other low-cost airlines to thank if Airmalta lowered their prices. Why are you gloating at other airlines' incidents?

J Farrugia (on 17/9/08)

Another Ryanair mishap, and to have the arrogance of insulting our national airline airmalta? better take care of those old work horses ryan.

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