Ryanair Dublin flight makes emergency landing
A Ryanair jet on a flight to Dublin made an emergency return to Charleroi airport shortly after takeoff last night because of a problem with its landing gear.
The airport had to cancel some flights to clean oil from the runway, but normal flights resumed early today.
After landing, the 120 passengers and five crew on the Irish budget airline’s Boeing 737-200, bound for Dublin, were evacuated down the chutes for safety reasons.
One passenger was slightly injured.
Ryanair said the plane “experienced a technical problem on takeoff,” so the captain turned around and “the aircraft landed safely.” It did not elaborate.
There were still some delays today after workers spent the night cleaning up the oil, said airport spokesman Pierre Fernemont. He said four flights had to be cancelled.
Charleroi airport is about 30 miles south of Brussels.
