Thirty-three Ryanair passengers were treated in hospital, some bleeding from their ears, after their Croatia-bound plane lost cabin pressure and made an emergency landing in Frankfurt on Friday, German police said on Saturday.
Oxygen masks were released on the Ryanair flight FR7312 from Dublin to Zadar in Croatia when it lost cabin pressure and diverted to Frankfurt Hahn airport, Ryanair said in a statement.
“In line with standard procedure, the crew deployed oxygen masks and initiated a controlled descent,” the airline statement said.
A log on flightradar24.com showed the flight descending from 37,000 to 10,000 feet over a seven-minute period 80 minutes into the flight.
Ryanair said the plane “landed normally and customers disembarked, where a small number received medical attention as a precaution.”
A spokesman for German police said 33 of 189 passengers were hospitalised, some bleeding from their ears. The spokesman said some were still receiving treatment on Saturday.
German air accident investigator BFU, responsible for investigating the incident, said its team was heading to Hahn airport to secure the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and to interview crew and passengers.
The BFU spokesman declined to speculate on the possible cause of the incident.
Ryanair said a flight had left Frankfurt to Zadar on Saturday morning. Police said some passengers had decided not to continue with their journey.
Ryanair said it had agreed to pay for hotels for the affected passengers but said there was a “shortage of available accommodation.”
Ryanair, which flies in 37 countries and carried 130 million passengers last year, is Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, according to the International Air Transport Association.
An emergency descent by an Air China aircraft on Tuesday after cabin oxygen levels dropped has been linked to a co-pilot smoking an e-cigarette during the flight, state media said on Friday.
16 Comments
oratis
July 14, 2018 at 17:42it’s all bad news coming out of Ryanair,the moral of the stories is that Ryanair is definitely an airline to avoid if possible.
the CEO of Ryanair is a money grabber that couldn’t careless about passengers or the people that work for him.
In comparison Easyjet is a far better airline that one could use and I’m sure that there are also one or two others.
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July 14, 2018 at 19:41I do not agree with your assesment. Pressure loss can happen on any airline. If the CEO is a money grabber, then tell me who is not. They get you from A to B for a very decent price. I’m happy with that, and so are millions of other passengers who fly them.I fly them Stansted to Paphos regularly. So whats the problem ? Anyone is free to pick and choose.
paul
July 15, 2018 at 02:22have to agree with you,they are an extremely successful operation that has resulted in thousands of jobs throughout europe,and have given countless tourists the opportunity to travel to cities in europe,sometimes for no more than the price of a taxi cab in that particular location,such is the hatred towards them in the uk a cheap tabloid carried an article that they where flying passengers to girona pretending to be barcelona.ryanair fly to barcelona el prat AND girona and they have a choice when they are booking as to which one. girona is the airport that serves the costa brava and barcelona if travellers choose to fly here instead. you only here the negative stuff about charging,they should try BA full fares national carrier and its ran these days like a complete joke!
paul
July 15, 2018 at 02:26people are happy to take the cheap fares and complain about everything else
Neroli
July 14, 2018 at 23:12It can happen on any aircraft!
paul
July 15, 2018 at 00:43absouletely its not the airline,they mostly all use same aircraft its either boeing 737 or airbus a320 of course uk media are all over it,they wanna take a look at BA now there is a joke and a national carrier, national disgrace more like
oratis
July 15, 2018 at 01:04yes that can but I was talking about the constant bad news in general from Ryan air,the strikes,the ticket mix up fiasco,the way the staff are treat.
if want to fly with them,be my guest, but you’ll have a hard time convincing me to go on a long flight with them.
oratis
July 15, 2018 at 01:35read my post below to Paul which was meant for you,I accidently put it under his name.
paul
July 15, 2018 at 02:08no probs understood
paul
July 15, 2018 at 00:46easyjet are by far the best of the two,but speaking from experience and indeed social media.BA are a joke non exsistent customer service,cancelling flights short notice (for no apparent reason) and cost cutting on drinks and meals even in higher grades premium economy etc clearly the worst airline in the UK if not europe
oratis
July 15, 2018 at 01:00when I said it’s all bad news about Ryanair I didn’t just mean this latest incident with the air pressure, it’s just in general the strikes,the mass cancellations last year, I’ve lost trust in them and would rather use a different airline even if it meant paying slightly more.
as for Michael O’leary the CEO it’s true what I said about him,he puts profits before customer service and his own staff.
he was even thinking about just having one pilot just to reduce costs. and what if something happened to that one pilot.
the fact that he even thought about it speaks volumes about him.
every decent CEO shouldvtryband maximise profits but at the same time take his customers and staff into consideration.
I don’t know much about BA but take your word on it about it.
GSP
July 15, 2018 at 18:48If what you say about passenger treatment above is true, could you explain why the aircraft invariably fly with hardly any empty seats?
Ryanair deliver what people want, cheap transport. Most passengers don’t care about the owner of the company.
Pullaard
July 15, 2018 at 09:15Fine, if you live in the UK where you have a choice. Flying out of Belgium the only airline with a direct flight to Cyprus is Ryanair. Alternatives involve transfer with hours of waiting in Athens, Budapest and Vienna and all cost a heckuva lot more. Personally I have had good treatment from Ryanair over the years and without them I would have to sell up in Cyprus, so long may they continue (despite O’Leary).
divadi bear
July 14, 2018 at 14:06While sitting in parked ‘planes in Egypt twice, one in Cairo the other in Luxor, I experienced passengers lighting cigarettes. On both occasions they were Arab passengers.
The one in Cairo wasn’t even asked to extinguish it, a male crew member came along with a mini fire extinguisher and sprayed foam directly on it in his mouth !
He was then “frog-marched” off the ‘plane. He probably had to ride a camel to his destination !
Mike-H
July 14, 2018 at 16:20I Like it.!
SuzieQ
July 14, 2018 at 23:04So do I! Divadi is a star!