Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left

Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by ktallett on Friday October 10, 2025 @12:29PM (#45540759)

Surely the issue is more that they decided to make so many attempts to land local. There should be a max level of attempts.

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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by jacquesm on Friday October 10, 2025 @12:42PM (#45540891)

There is a lot of pressure on pilots to land local. But 3 go-arounds happens, not often, but it does.

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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by ktallett on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:17PM (#45541349)

Perhaps that decision needs to be removed from the airline and there needs to be an independent decision maker there.

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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by jacquesm on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:52PM (#45541789)

Pilots are ultimately responsible for the aircraft, that's pretty much set in stone but if ATC would tell them to divert they would unless there already was an emergency.

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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by kqr on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:45AM (#45546900)

There is a max level, and it is three.

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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by ktallett on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:37AM (#45602469)

Well clearly that number should depend on distance to next airport and how much fuel is onboard. It isn't sensible to have a set number when other parameters change.

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