Ryanair crew criticised over flight emergency
15.12.09
An air accident investigation report has criticised Ryanair crew after 9 oxygen masks failed to deploy, and they were reduced to banging on the cockpit door to alert the pilot during a serious incident on a flight from Dublin to Stansted last September. The anxious cabin crew used ID cards in a vain effort to prise open the units where masks that had not come down were stored, according to the report of the Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit.
The report criticises the flight crew for continuing to climb and pressurise the cabin when the nature of a problem arising from a bump heard during take-off was not known. A sudden loss of cabin pressure was triggered when the flight crew carried out checks after the tail of the aircraft hit the runway during take-off. Doing this without fully appreciating the consequences was a contributory cause of the incident, the report adds.
Ryanair, which has accepted the report findings, has already made changes to its training procedures in response to the incident. It said the report showed that the tail-strike was ‘minor’ and the aircraft returned to Dublin as a precautionary measure.
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