Pilot drama as co-pilot forced to land plane

A CO-PILOT on his first official flight with Ryanair was forced to make an emergency landing after it appeared the captain had a cardiac arrest and was “clinically dead.”

An Air Accident Investigation Unit report just published reveals the captain was seen making some animated phone calls about his terms and conditions at the no-frills airline shortly before the incident.

The report highlights how passengers on board the Ryanair scheduled service were unknowingly at the centre of a major emergency shortly after the plane took off from Charleroi Airport in Belgium two years ago. The incident happened on a flight to London Stansted on September 13, 2002, with 143 passengers and crew on board.