Cracks found near the wings and fuselage of three Ryanair planes have led the low-cost airline to ground the jets from their all-Boeing 737 fleet just a week after more than 50 planes of the type were banned from flying globally.
Ireland-based Ryanair discovered cracks in the “pickle fork” structure on three of their Boeing 737NGs, according to the Guardian that saw the airline’s engineering logs. All the grounded jets are over 15 years old and are of the same model as the other 447 Boeing jets extensively flown by the carrier.
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