RN> I wonder what damage the engines suffered?
 
The airplane was taken off-line but as Barcelona is a main base for Ryanair
they have a similar plane there standing-by in a rotation scheme, they have
that at 7 or 8 airports, so when a plane goes off-line for whatever reason
they have a backup ready, fueled and with crew ready to ferry the plane to
wherever. Due to the selection of those bases a back-up plane can be
flown-in within 90 minutes at the most except for certain exotic
destinations (Fuertaventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife...)
 
The plane reached its parking spot under its own power and departing
passengers were taken to the back-up plane, they didn't even know.
 
Ryanair gets lots of flak in Europe but they're well organized, I flew them
dozens of time and never a problem. Once the plane had a birdstrike and we
were barely delayed.
 
RN> Also, the one right after that with the Air Canada flight 85 running out
RN> of fuel at 41,000 feet was most interesting.
 
AC85 is Tel Aviv to Toronto.
 
Make that AC143 and we're alright.
 
But they still had land to put their wheels down on.
 
More critical is a similar situation with air Transat 236 from Toronto to
Lisbon in 2001 which ran out of fuel over the Atlantic due to a leak. It
wasn't really made into a book nor in a movie, not spectacular enough but
way more critical as it occured over water.
 
Here's the pretty accurate reference:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
 
The difference, probably, with the 2 recent 737 MAX crashes is that both
crews on those Canadian planes followed the golden rule "fly the
plane" and not start tinkering with computers in case of a problem.
 
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