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On Barbara Kornfeld
It started quietly, Sunday 29 September 2024 at 15:20 at Orio al Serio airport (Bergamo) the black week for Ryanar cabin crew and passengers, with the change of aircraft due to confirmed technical problems, when the passengers had already boarded, and arriving in Salerno two hours late.
Two days later, The passengers in transit at the Orio al Serio airport experienced a very different scenario (Bergamo), when at 07:55 in the morning at Boeing FR 846 Ryanair - coming from Barcelona - four tires exploded during landing. The pilot was very skilled in managing the emergency but the aircraft caused a rut of four hundred and fifty meters in the landing strip, while a trail of fire terrified the one hundred and sixty-one passengers. Nor them, nor did the six crew members suffer any injuries of any kind, thanks to the capacity of the fleet and the readiness of the rescue services on the ground: Fire Brigade and State Police.
The episode, however, created a series of inconveniences that affected twenty thousand passengers for twelve hours; they seem like a lot, it's actually a record track restoration time, by Sacbo technicians - the management company of the third Milanese airport - a fact which however did not avoid the cancellation of one hundred and twenty-nine flights - forcing some to sleep in the waiting room (to leave the next day with rescheduled tickets); thirty-four departures were diverted to other ports.
But the week to forget for the Irish company Ryanair continued on Thursday 3rd October 2024, when a fire broke out in the engine of a Ryanair aircraft departing from Brindisi for Turin: the passengers - unharmed - were rescued from the emergency slides and the runway reopened within a few hours.
The indignation of those who have suffered the inconveniences is understandable, the comments of web users are exaggerated and often inappropriate - which would attribute the responsibility for the inconveniences to the pilots - and consequently to the airlines which were superficially chosen in the preparation of the fleet crew.
This week's incidents are sure to have repercussions and trigger scrutiny, technical checks carried out by the Company itself and even more so by the competent authorities: of the rest, even the on-board staff want to work peacefully and survive any possible inconvenience.
