{"id":357344,"date":"2026-03-21T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357344\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:13:10","slug":"firefighters-rush-to-ryanair-flight-from-dublin-to-manchester-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357344\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rush to Ryanair flight from Dublin to Manchester Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefighters attended Ryanair flight RK558 from Dublin as a precaution on Thursday evening after smoke was seen coming from the aircraft<\/p>\n

Carrington Walker Live News Journalist, Ramazani Mwamba News reporter and Stephen Topping Senior reporter<\/p>\n

09:30, 20 Mar 2026Updated 09:47, 20 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

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Firefighters are on the scene <\/p>\n

Ryanair has released a statement after flights were temporarily halted and fire crews rushed to Manchester Airport following an incident on Thursday evening (March 19).<\/p>\n

Emergency services were spotted at the airport after Ryanair flight RK558 from Dublin<\/a> to Manchester touched down just after 6pm at Terminal 3. Firefighters were deployed to accompany the aircraft as a precautionary measure due to a ‘mechanical problem’, reports the Manchester Evening News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manchester Airport suspended operations <\/a>for approximately seven minutes whilst emergency personnel dealt with the situation. Reports suggest smoke was observed emanating from the aircraft.<\/p>\n

\"Firefighters<\/p>\n

Ryanair confirmed that a ‘tech issue’ had impacted the plane(Image: Submitted )<\/p>\n

In a statement released this morning (Friday), Ryanair confirmed that a ‘minor tech issue’ had impacted the plane. Engineers examined the aircraft once all passengers had left.<\/p>\n

Photographs from the incident showed numerous emergency response vehicles positioned beside the plane. The emergency presence was subsequently reduced.<\/p>\n

A Ryanair spokesperson said: “Flight RK558 from Dublin to Manchester (March 19) experienced a minor tech issue upon landing. Passengers and crew disembarked normally, and the aircraft was towed back to stand to be inspected by Ryanair engineers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters attended Ryanair flight RK558 from Dublin as a precaution on Thursday evening after smoke was seen coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,1899,2521],"class_list":["post-357344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ryanair","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}