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EAST MIDLANDS AIRPORT has denied reports this evening of an emergency in connection with a Ryanair flight from Cork.
According to details on the Ryanair site, the flight landed safely at East Midlands shortly after 10pm today, but was delayed due to an ‘air traffic control’ delay:
There were reports in local media and on Twitter this evening of an emergency on board flight FR1769.
However, when contacted by TheJournal.ie, East Midlands Airport said there had been no emergency incident at the airport this evening, “involving Ryanair or otherwise”.
Update 11:36am, Thursday, 31 July 2014:
Ryanair has confirmed that a customer was taken ill on the flight:
A customer onboard this flight from Cork to East Midlands last night (30 July) became ill. The crew informed ATC and requested to be met by an ambulance. The aircraft landed normally and the customer was met by medical staff, but did not require treatment. There was no emergency on this flight.
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Another non story, only posted because it contains the name Ryanair. There may or may not been an emergency, or medical issue, and it may or may not have happened on a Ryanair aircraft. Top class news on the journal tonight!
Pure speculation. But Ryanair generates the clicks. And as Michael O Leary says, all publicity is good!
Hi Ken, we ran this piece because people are asking what’s happening with the flight. The airport spoke to us about it and rather than keep that to ourselves, we thought it would be good to clarify what we know about it.
Which is not much Susan.
Are you telling me Susan that each time someone sees an aircraft squawk 7700 on flight radar applications and they contact you (or can contact you) and you and members of your team at the Journal is going to found out what’s happening? Like really? Are you serious?
Susan they are a difficult crowd here
No only when its Ryanair, the amount of Aer Lingus emergencies since the start of the year and nothing about them.
Susan reporting about a flight is one thing but you reported about nothing
Here, for a the red thumb people, have a read through, all emergencies
http://avherald.com/h?search_term=Aer+Lingus&opt=0&dosearch=1&search.x=-862&search.y=-106
ECHOOOO!
I want to know more about this ‘keep it to ourselves’ thing.
So what was the emergency Susan?
A Garth brooks ticket was returning his broken record to Garth when he found out about pat Kenny moving to news talk and nothing happened
Did anyone see the fecking tele remote, doin me head in
Under the cushion.
Susan – Really, have you really written such an non news article?
To reword this whole article in one sentence: “someone said something might have happened somewhere but it didn’t”. End.
If there is any truth to the story it will be uploaded from smart phone cameras in about four minutes……..
Journal ….the text version of the Adrian Kennedy show!
print a fact, such as O’leary winning the Galway plate today
when their is breaking news and you don’t have all the facts that’s fine but when it’s a non story based on speculation why waste time posting it. all you’ve got is someone said something and anyone in a position to know said it didn’t happen.
If you could not just focus exclusively on the safe landing updates for Ryanair but publish updates on all safe landings be it Aer Lingus, British Airways, American Airlines etc. Thanks Journal
Well the flight squawked 7700, which means a general emergency, that is most likely a medical emergency
That Ryanair flight declared an emergency. I have flightradar24 app which notifies of an emergencies declared by any flights and that Ryanair did declare an emergency.
Squak 7700s are not uncommon, anything up to once an hour throughout the world. Pilots are advised not to switch transponders to standby when changing squak, so the signal is constant. However, the transponders on some aircraft can allow a pilot to briefly and inadvertantly send a 7700 emergency code as they scroll through the 0-7 digits. It happens and does not always mean an emergency. ATC will always seek verification on status when a 7700 is sent. I suspect that *possibly* happened here.
We live in a world where anyone can track aircraft through apps and have instant live information. Most rudimentary flight apps on your phone are set up to send out an alert the instant a 7700 is transponded.
I’ve the plane finder app and an emergency call was made from this flight…. I get notified when such calls are made…. Sad I know!!
Suspect Ryanair was running almost out of oil & that’s why it was forced to land at nearest airport. This incident should be investigated plus a big fine.
Oil?
Considering it was going to East Midlands and landed at East Midlands it didn’t run out of anything, oh yeah, whats that you said? 100% safety record….. Yeah thats correct
Jason, fuel. Ryanair is known well as a miser for trying to save money by putting little fuel on their wing engines!
Big fine for nothing happening. I hope you realise they don’t use ‘oil’ and they didn’t run out of it.
And i hope you realise that the documentary Channel 4 ran left out big details like the one that other aircraft declared emergency the same evening as the Ryanair aircraft. These details make big differences in the story.
Can you back that up with facts Thosj?
Sean, if they don’t use “oil” then please explain to me what they use to lubricate those two jet engines hanging off the wings. I’ll wait.
Well maybe they don’t use oil to fuel the engines. What it is called is Jet A1 fuel. So no. It is not oil.
And thanks for waiting
The engine do use oil and burn quite a bit of it also.
Sorry seen the other guys post.
Hows the little one eyeballs? Did everything work out ok?
The key word in my post was “lubricate”. Not the fuel, the Turbo Oil 2380, (or whatever), that lubricates, and cools, the bearings and without which they ain’t going nowhere. Yes, I know it’s a synthetic but still crude oil based as is Jet A1……..which is basically a Kerosine cut. Oh, and no problem with the waiting, just me being a tad grumpy.
Squaked 7700. Fuel emergency apparently. Given that would have had enough fuel to reach their destination and then an alternative, you could speculate they had a fuel leak.
10 portions of fruit and veg a day I’d the whole time sitting on the toilet. Go with whatever your body tells you.
I was on this flight and a passenger went in to anaphylactic shock after someone else had been eating nuts. We were met by paramedics and fire brigade on the ground and they were definitely treating it like an emergency!
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