Ryanair B738 at Faro on Nov 15th 2025, engine pod strike on landing, damage undetected for about 24 hours
Last Update: January 6, 2026 / 16:05:32 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Nov 15, 2025
Classification
Incident
Airline
Ryanair
Flight number
FR-5139
Departure
Milan Bergamo, Italy
Destination
Faro, Portugal
Aircraft Registration
EI-ENG
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
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.
Aircraft Registration Data
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Nov 15, 2025
Classification
Incident
Airline
Ryanair
Flight number
FR-5139
Departure
Milan Bergamo, Italy
Destination
Faro, Portugal
Aircraft Registration
EI-ENG
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
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