Ryanair aircraft diverts to Limoges 25 Aug.

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Ryanair aircraft diverts to Limoges 25 Aug.

Update 08:30hrs - 26 Aug

Ryanair flight FR9336 from Bristol to Barcelona Girona on the 25th August diverted to Limoges Airport last night (landing at approx. 23.30 local) following an inflight de-pressurisation incident which caused the oxygen masks to deploy. All 168 passengers disembarked safely upon landing.

Having been provided with refreshments at Limoges Airport, a replacement aircraft was deployed to Limoges from London Stansted and transferred 127 passenger onwards to Barcelona Girona, landing at 0330am local this morning .

16 passengers, together with 5 accompanying family members were transferred, at their request, to a local hospital with earaches. They were examined overnight and are expected to travel onwards today by coach, together with 18 other passengers (who chose not to fly onwards last night). A coach will depart Limoges at approx. 1200hrs this morning. All passengers who over-nighted in Limoges were provided with hotel accommodation and refreshments by Ryanair's handling agents at Limoges.

Ryanair's engineers have inspected the aircraft overnight and have confirmed that the oxygen masks which deployed were working properly. In accordance with Ryanair's safety procedure during this de-pressurisation incident, the pilots and cabin crew also deployed their oxygen masks until the aircraft made a controlled descent to 8,000ft at which stage it was safe for the pilot to make a PA announcement advising all passengers that they would be diverting as a safety precaution to Limoges Airport, where Ryanair were arranging for a replacement aircraft to take them onwards to their destination in Barcelona Girona.

Ryanair will this morning be in contact with all the passengers on board the aircraft, to communicate our sincere apologies for any distress or delay the passengers on board may have suffered due to this depressurisation incident. Ryanair has already notified the Irish and French Aviation Authorities and a full investigation of this incident will be undertaken later today.

A further update will be made at 12:00hrs