Flight-Mares Continue
Posted on September 12, 2008 by Fiona Hilliard
How’s Michael O’ Leary going to worm his way out of this one?
Charm (should that be smarm?) can only take you so far when you’ve got “terrified” passengers saying the following about yesterday’s Ryanair Dublin to Stansted flight:
“We were taking off and we heard a bang. It felt like the back of the plane whacked off the ground. Everyone was looking around really confused.”
That’s not all though, there’s more…
”After three or four minutes everything began to feel really heavy. Then it sounded like the back door had opened up and air started escaping from the cabin really quickly. We felt a rush of air and a whistling noise.”
Maybe not the most comforting sound you want to hear upon take-off, then again it could be worse, your oxygen mask may have failed to deploy, as in the case of this passenger:
“Our oxygen masks didn’t come down. I got a pen and tried to open up the cabinet and it broke”, she told the Irish Independent. “The air hostess had her mask on, but she handed me her hairclip and then her ID card to try and open the cabinet and luckily it worked.”
Last night the budget carrier issued a statement saying its fleet was “absolutely safe.”
I’m sorry but it’s asking a bit much when you expect passengers to feel reassured by a stewardess playing Russian roulette with a hairclip and an ID card.
At least you know where you are when you rent a car.
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About the Author: Fiona likes to travel – especially to cities. Her favourites include: New York, London, Copenhagen, Madrid and Lisbon.
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Dunna
- 12th Sep, 08 11:09am
all the passengers got was a 5 euro tea voucher as compensation..well they are a no frills airline.