Ryanair's engineers are inspecting a plane the hit the runway with its tail on takeoff. Picutre: Ryanair
A RYANAIR flightwas delayed for eight hours overnight after it was forced to turn around because the tail hit the runway on takeoff.
According to reports in the Aviation Herald, Ryanair flight FR-3883 from Malta (Malta) to London Luton,EN (UK), departed Luqa Airport's runway 13 when the crew received indication the tail of the aircraft had contacted the runway surface.
The crew of the Boeing 737-800 stopped the climb at 5000 feet and returned to Malta for a safe landing about 35 minutes after departure.
A replacement aircraft was sent to get the passengers to London.
Sarah Wilson was on board the plane. She told the Malta Herald she knew there was a problem as soon as the flight took off.
"We felt the tail hit the runway and knew there was a problem as we kept low and repeatedly circled Gozo," Ms Wilson said. "No fuel dump took place, the pilot burnt fuel until it was safe to land. We didn't fly back to UK on the same aircraft as that is still being inspected in Malta. Whatever went wrong i am very grateful to the crew for getting us down safe."
Air craft engineers are inspecting the damage to the plane.
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