Dozens of Ryanair passengers injured in emergency landing
Passengers ‘bleeding from ears’ after cabin pressure dropped and plane plunged ‘3,000 metres in less than one minute’
More than 30 passengers on a Ryanair flight were reportedly taken to hospital after the cabin became depressurised and the plane had to make an emergency landing in Frankfurt.
In interviews with German and Irish media, passengers described moments of terror as their plane — flying from Dublin to Zadar, Croatia, late on Friday — descended suddenly, following what Ryanair said was a drop in cabin pressure.
A passenger said on Facebook there was a “dive of 3,000 metres in less than one minute”.
A lot of people complained about sore ears, but praised the pilots for doing an “excellent job”, he said.
But some passengers were angry about the way the company treated them.
Minerva Galvan Domenech from Spain told news website Spiegel Online that passengers, some of them bleeding from their ears, mouth or nose, had to wait 45 minutes before being allowed to leave the plane.
