Passengers faced a six-hour delay after the tyres on a Ryanair plane burst on landing. Onlookers claim another pilot said it happened due to a “bad landing” at Milan Bergamo Airport which also damaged the runway as well as the tyres.
Alice Longhurst, 35, was supposed to be flying from the airport to Dubrovnik at 7.50am this morning. But she says her separate flight was delayed due to the less-than-perfect landing.
Her pilot announced the plane in front of them had burst four tyres, leaving a strong burning smell of rubber, she said. The pilot said it happened due to a bad landing and the runway was damaged, she claims.
The pilot announced that the ground crews didn’t know how to move the plane after the “crash” because all of the tyres were burst, she said. And one of the wheels bent under the plane.
Alice, a marketing consultant, from London said: “You could smell the burning rubber in the plane. That was quite scary. We were ready to go and there were flames, which was scary. I was shocked. I never experienced anything like this before. They told us to wait for a couple of hours and then they took us off the plane.”
She is now currently waiting at Bergamo airport and said she was told to expect delays of six hours. A spokesperson from Ryanair said: “Flight FR846 from Barcelona to Milan Bergamo (1 Oct) experienced a tyre issue upon landing at Milan Bergamo Airport.
“Passengers disembarked normally, and the aircraft was inspected by engineers, who are currently servicing the aircraft so that it can return to service.”