2023-07-25 13:16:42
Panic attack and heatstroke: Passengers on a Ryanair plane were reportedly locked in a plane without air conditioning for three hours on Friday as the thermometer read a sweltering 42C in Malaga, Spain.
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“They took us down after people passed out and there were panic attacks,” tiktoker Marco Ferrero, who was on the plane, said in Italian, according to a video shared on social media.
According to what he reported, the passengers were thus locked in the plane without air conditioning, which was grounded in Malaga, in the south of Spain, while waiting to be able to take off for Milan in Italy.
Except that outside, the mercury then showed 42 degrees Celsius. We can see, on the images, the dripping passengers who try as best they can to ventilate themselves with scraps of paper inside the cabin.
It was only when some of them allegedly began to lose consciousness, even requiring ambulances to be on the scene, that the doors would have been opened, the Italian continued in his video.
“The passenger’s story is mind-blowing and even more so the images. There are people who are visibly affected by the heat. Some of them, exhausted, are rescued on the runway by an ambulance and medical personnel,” said Ivano Giacomelli, of the Codici Consumers Association, claiming accountability from the airline according to the Italian media. Daily fact.
For its part, the company would simply have indicated that it had been kept on the ground due to maintenance, which would have delayed the departure.
“To avoid losing the departure time, passengers remained on board while technicians carried out maintenance on the aircraft. Unfortunately, the plane was not released in time, which caused it to lose its slot and the passengers had to disembark”, she would have indicated in a press release, according to the Italian media.
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