how the hate campaign against Ryanair continues...

Dear Ryanair fans,
see how the hate campaign against Ryanair continues. This photo was taken at deredactie.be, the website of the Flemish public broadcasting company. This morning a small Cessna plane crashed at Charleroi Airport. Instead of putting a photo of this Cessna, they dare to publish a Ryanair 737 photo, making people believe that it was a Ryanair crash (probably because of not enough fuel or so). Shame on you VRT!

This is the screenshot : https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/18/10/57/07/naamlo11.jpg
greets

A Cessna Centurion (said to be N240PW) has crashed this saturday morning around 10 am at CRL, unfortunately with 5 casualties.
The airport will remain closed until late this afternoon, FR flights being cancelled or diverted, mainly to Liège.

Le parquet de Charleroi et la Direction Générale des Transports Aériens ont terminé leurs devoirs d'enquête sur le tarmac de l'aéroport de Gosselies qui prévoyait de reprendre ses activités vers 16h00, indique David Gering, porte-parole du BSCA.

Au total, quinze vols ont été détournés vers l'aéroport de Bierset (Liège) et un autre vers Zaventem. Cinq vols ont été annulés et entre douze à quinze vols ont enregistré des retards allant de quarante minutes à six heures.

Airport has been opened around 16.00.
5 flights had been cancelled, 15 flights had been diverted to Liège, 1 to Brussels, and between 12 and 15 flights had been delayed from 40 minutes to 6 hours (not all these flights were FR - Jetairfly and Wizzair flights were also involved).

Very Sad

Five people have been killed in a plane crash at Charleroi airport in Belgium, officials say.

The small Cessna aircraft suffered difficulties on take-off and crashed on the edge of the runway.

Officials said operations had been suspended at the airport, which is a hub for low-cost carriers such as Ryanair.

The officials said they hoped operations would resume in the afternoon but could give no timetable.

The twisted wreckage of the plane could be seen on the runway, with little but the rear section intact.


Airport spokeswoman Melissa Milioto said: "There was a problem on take-off and they tried to come back, but unfortunately the plane crashed."

She added: "Our priority is dealing with this drama. Flights are being diverted to Liege and Brussels."

Belgian media reported that the five people on board were from the same family - three young children, their mother and grandfather.

They were said to be Belgian nationals from Uccle.

On his Twitter account, Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims.

Flying conditions at the time were reported to be poor, with freezing fog causing difficulties.

Charleroi is Belgium's second international airport after Zaventem in Brussels, and is busy with half-term travel.

On its website, Ryanair listed five flight cancellations for Saturday - all flying out of Charleroi.