All flights were suspended at an Italian airport Tuesday after a Ryanair plane’s tires exploded during landing.
The staff at the Milan Bergamo Airport rushed to disembark the passengers as the tires continued to tear.
Two emergency vehicles from the Bergamo headquarters and five from the airport were on the tarmac within minutes.
A plane on the runway at Bergamo Airport in Milan after all four of its tires
burst, causing flight disruptions and stranding some passengers. Alice Longhurst-Jones / SWNSThe rubber on all four of the main tires was gnarled by the time the plane came to a stop on the tarmac.
“You could smell the burning rubber in the plane. That was quite scary,” passenger Alice Longhurst, 35, told SWNS.
“We were ready to go, and there were flames which was scary. I was shocked. I never experienced anything like this before.
There were no reported injuries, and all passengers exited the plane down a mobile staircase.
The cause of the incident is still unknown, but engineers have inspected the aircraft and will begin repairs so that it can “return to service” soon, Ryanair said in a statement obtained by the Sun.
A mobile staircase was rolled out to help passengers
aboard the flight disembark. Alice Longhurst-Jones / SWNSAll incoming flights were diverted to other nearby airports in Lombardy and Verona, according to Sky Italia.
Others that couldn’t be moved were canceled. The airport is set to reopen once the plane can be removed from the tarmac and all debris is discarded.
Ryanair has seen a turbulent summer after an argument aboard a flight to London snowballed into a massive brawl at nearly 30,000 feet in the air — and not even an hour into the journey.
