Ryanair plane rolls backwards into airport building

Saturday, 06 Jun, 2014 0

A Ryanair plane has been left with £200,000 worth of damage after it rolled backwards 40 metres crashing into an airport fire station.

The force of the impact tore apart the ‘tail wing’ of the £72m Boeing 737 at Rome Ciampino Airport yesterday.

A Ryanair spokesman said the plane was parked with no-one on board but it had not been properly secured.

Robin Kiely said: "Ryanair has asked the ground handling agent (Groundcare) to investigate why it failed to properly secure a Ryanair aircraft at Rome Ciampino Airport yesterday.

"The parked and unoccupied aircraft rolled back and made contact with a remote building damaging its rear stabiliser.

"This is currently being replaced and the aircraft will shortly return to service."

A witness told the Daily Mail: "It was surreal to watch. This big heavy jet just started to roll backwards gathering speed until it crashed into the garage of the airport fire station."

 



 

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