Ryanair flight '40 seconds from crashing in France with passengers onboard'
dailystar.co.ukRyanair passenger plane averted potential crash with just 40 seconds to spare. The Boeing 737 took off from London Stansted bound for Bergerac airport in France when the pilot encountered cloudy weather, an aviation report found.A terrain alert system then kicked in warning the cockpit of the budget flight to abort the landing as the plane was too low to the ground.The pilots, 57, and the trainee first officer, 27, were said to have lost "situational awareness" during the incident in January 2015.They were ordered to "PULL UP PULL UP!".It was revealed the plane made a narrow escape from potential disaster as it was too low for more than two minutes, eight miles from the runway.If the warning hadn't kicked in it was estimated the Boeing had.
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