Paper recognises Ryanair’s safety standards

Ryanair yesterday secured yet another acknowledgement from a media outlet in the High Court of the quality of its safety record.

That record had been questioned in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme broadcast this year, in which a pilot spoke about the safety of the airline.

In a statement read out in the High Court yesterday, Mirror Group Newspapers Limited said: “On Monday, August 12, in connection to a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary scheduled to be broadcast that evening, we reported that, according to a survey, ‘most Ryanair pilots have serious concerns about passenger safety’.