On 3rd January, a Ryanair Boeing B737-8AS aircraft departed the Manchester airport (MAN) at 6.33pm on 3rd Jan - Monday as a regular flight, apparently without any technical issues and was scheduled to land at around 9.30 in Faro (FAO) , Portugal.
But approximately an hour into the flight , at Flight Level 410 , about 80nm north of Brest, France , aircraft faced certain onboard issues that made the aircraft to initiate a rapid descent into Brest Airport (BES) , France to make an emergency Landing.
It is being reported that , an onboard fire forced the 2009 built Boeing narrow body Aircraft to go for the emergency landing after diverting from it's original route (FR4052), destined to Faro Airport.
Incident took shape when the aircraft (Registered as EI-EFY) was flying over the English channel, and Pilots took action promptly to descend to FL110 levelling off at FL110 briefly about 6 minutes after leaving FL410 .
According to a flight-tracking platform Flight Radar 24 , the aircraft made a rapid descent over the course of seven minutes, dropping from 41,000 feet to 6,725 feet over seven minutes between 7.14pm and 7.21pm.
The aircraft made an approach to Brest airport for a safe landing on runway 25L and stopped on the runway where fire tenders and police were waiting on the runway.
737-800 Ryanair #FR4052 went down in emergency in brest due to a fire outside the aircraft, all passengers got out on a bus taken by the french police pic.twitter.com/0En5vgLasg
— thomas drié (@thomasdrie49) January 3, 2022
About 25 minutes after landing the aircraft vacated the runway and stopped on the parallel taxiway, where passengers disembarked and were transferred to the terminal without any further incident.
At the end, Passengers from the incident aircraft (Regd. EI-EFY) found themselves in another Boeing 737-8AS aircraft (Regd. EI-DLF) at Brest Airport to continue their journey to Portugal.
