Nov 15th 2025 : An Ryanair Boeing Flight FR5139 took off from Milan Bergamo (Italy) towards its destination Faro (Portugal) on Nov 15, 2025.
The aircraft 737-800 with registration EI-ENG landed on Faro’s runway 28 touching down at 1.69G with both main gear, the left main gear bounced resulting in bank angle of about 9 degrees to the right, the right engine cover contacted the runway surface. The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron.
The aircraft continued for four more sectors on Nov 15th and Nov 16th 2025 before the damage was detected about 24 hours later. The aircraft subsequently remained on the ground in Faro until Nov 22nd 2025.
Portugal’s GPIAA annotated:
Analysis of the flight data by the operator revealed that significant aileron inputs were made during the flare. The aircraft touched down on Runway 28 on both main gears and with a vertical acceleration of 1.69G. There was a slight bounce with the left main gear becoming briefly airborne while the aircraft experienced a 9-degree roll to the right, during which the nose gear touched down before the left main gear returned to the runway.
Subsequent aircraft deceleration on the runway occurred normally.
The crew did not consider that a hard landing had occurred and all aircraft systems were operating as normal.
The aircraft operated in accordance with the flight schedule and completed four additional sectors before, on the day following the occurrence, damage was detected to the lower area of the Engine No. 2 nacelle.
The damage was neither detected during prior walkarounds performed by flight crew nor during the ramp check by engineers, in the evening of the 15th of November.
Subsequently, the aircraft was declared AOG (Aircraft on Ground), and the operator initiated an internal investigation, which included the implementation of mitigation actions.
