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Date Published: 09/10/2023

Ryanair flight from Spain suffers engine failure

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The plane was forced to return to Palma de Mallorca airport due to the in-flight fault

Ryanair flight from Spain suffers engine failure

Passengers aboard a Ryanair jet headed to Hamburg, Germany from Spain’s Palma had a hair-raising couple of hours on Saturday October 7 when the plane was forced to make an emergency landing due to an in-flight engine failure.

Flight FR7185 departed Spain at 4.40pm carrying 201 passengers but hadn’t even reached cruising altitude when the pilot stopped its climb. He was then forced into a series of holding patterns and circled the airport for almost an hour and a half to burn enough fuel to land safely.

Thankfully, the Boeing 737 MAX touched back down safely in Palma de Mallorca at 6.02pm, to the undoubted relief of the anxious passengers.

The cause of the engine failure hasn’t been revealed, but the aircraft is almost brand new – Ryanair only took delivery of the jet in June this year.

The Palma-Hamburg flight was later cancelled.

At the end of August, a Jet2 flight from Glasgow to Mallorca had to request an emergency landing when it came desperately close to running out of fuel. Storms raging across the Spanish islands forced the plane into a holding pattern for almost an hour.

As the jet had already begun eating into its emergency reserves, the pilot was given priority landing and the plane touched down in Mallorca three hours and 26 minutes after takeoff.

Also of interest: British tourist dies on Jet2 flight from Spain

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