See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 13:22 BST, 11 September 2026 | Updated: 13:30 BST, 11 September 2026
A Ryanair plane's wing struck the runway during an aborted landing in Ireland on Thursday.Dramatic footage shows passengers screaming as the Boeing 737 jolts and tips to one side while touching down at Dublin Airport.The pilots then abort the landing and take the plane back into the air to perform a go-around, as one person on board can be heard cursing.A Ryanair spokesperson said: 'On landing in Dublin yesterday evening (10 Sept) Ryanair flight FR9457 from Bologna suffered a minor wing tip impact.'The aircraft landed safely and all passengers offloaded normally. Our engineers have repaired the wing tip and the aircraft has since gone back into service this morning (11 Sept).'The flight had taken off from Bologna before coming in to land in Dublin at around 10.45am.As it touched down, the aircraft tipped onto its right-hand side and its wing tip struck the runway.The pilots immediately aborted the landing, powering the aircraft back into the air.They were able to bring the plane safely back down around 15 minutes later. A Ryanair plane's wing struck the runway during an aborted landing in Ireland on Thursday Dramatic footage shows passengers screaming as the Boeing 737 jolts and tips to one side while touching down at Dublin Airport The pilots immediately aborted the landing, powering the aircraft back into the air to perform a go-aroundIt comes after the boss of Ryanair yesterday echoed calls for the chief executive of Britain's main air traffic control provider to quit after technical issues caused major flight disruption.Michael O'Leary accused under-fire Martin Rolfe, who is in charge of National Air Traffic Services (NATS), of 'hiding behind safety' and insisted he should be sacked.It comes as dozens more flights to and from Britain were axed on Thursday as chaos caused by major technical issues with air traffic control systems continued for a third day.A total of 51 services at UK airports were affected on Thursday. Heathrow was worst affected with 28 flights cancelled, including 21 arrivals and seven departures.A further 11 flights were cancelled at Gatwick and five at Glasgow along with a handful of other services across Aberdeen, London City, Luton and Manchester.Speaking to reporters in Dublin yesterday, Mr O'Leary said of Mr Rolfe: 'He keeps hiding behind safety. You know, you can't run a safe airspace by grounding every aircraft.'You know, it's nonsense, so we think he should go. But then, it's 49 per cent owned by the UK Government, and they're clearly trying to protect him.'It is beyond my comprehension how the guy who has visited three collapses on UK ATC (air traffic control) is asked to do the investigation into his own screw-ups. So we think he should be sacked and somebody competent brought in to do the job.'Mr O'Leary also accused Mr Rolfe of lying about the cause of the outage. He said Ryanair had been told by NATS that the outage was caused by a rogue flight plan, the same problem that caused a major disruption in 2023.Mr Rolfe said yesterday that he believed the latest outage had been caused by 'something different' from previous incidents – but Mr O'Leary has rejected that explanation today.'NATS have told us it was another rogue flight plan. Now Martin Rolfe is out denying it yesterday,' Mr O'Leary said. 'I believe he's telling lies to save his own skin.'
