I understand Ryanair is an ultra-budget airline, but goddamn they’re cutting their budget a little too close, aren’t they?
The passengers were taken from Manchester to Prestwick, arriving 10 hours later than the scheduled arrival time of 6pm on Friday.
Apparently the drive from Manchester to Prestwick is about 4 hours, so it seems like the flight lasted way longer than originally planned with the landing attempts and the pilots burned through their reserve fuel.
another thing with landing - you’re burning a bunch of fuel if you have to abort, especially when you’re a fatass Airbus A320 that has to get back up in the air before the runway turns to grass.
I’m not surprised their fuel was low,
that’s an insane time to be in the air if you’re only intending to be in the air for 40 minutes, tops.nvm the flight was from Italy to Prestwich, not from Prestwick to Manchester (that was the detour).
Still that’s like double the time assuming its like 4 hours normally. How extra fuel are plane meant to carry?
The diminishing rate of profit necessitates that we have enough toilet paper for every 40 passengers
Capitalist Efficiency
thrust in time
There was turbulence over the Firth of Forth
Firth of Forth
What the helly
The Firth of Forth separates the Fife from Lothian
A firth is what the Norse would call a fjord.
Colin Fjord
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archive because
- fuck the guardian
- they also make you accept tracking to view their articles so this is a lil fuck you to em
@VILenin@hexbear.net is this concerning or a non-issue?
This is a very serious incident, hence the investigation. But I doubt it will lead to any changes with regards to the required fuel reserves. To keep it simple, you basically need enough fuel to get where you want to go, circle around a bit, fly somewhere else, circle around a bit, and land there. You generally don’t want to take on additional weight for no real reason.
It is a common occurrence where delays and weather conditions result in nearing minimum fuel. Which means it will turn into an emergency if you don’t get on the ground soon, not that it’s going to run out of fuel in a minute.
A real fuel emergency such as this can be caused by large weather patterns resulting in failed landing attempts at multiple different airports, which has happened before.
The investigation is more likely to scrutinize whether or not the pilots should’ve diverted to the airports they did, instead of one known to have nicer conditions. That is to say, whether they diverted to a closer airport to save face for the airline.
They will also probably look at the decision to dispatch the flight in the first place in light of the available forecasts at the time, and the decision to attempt a landing in light of available reports.
But you probably shouldn’t be concerned about your next flight. This is an exceptionally rare occurrence.
Which means it will turn into an emergency if you don’t get on the ground soon, not that it’s going to run out of fuel in a minute.
as is common knowledge, you can tap the gauge to get five more minutes of fuel time. however,, it only works once
