Ryanair Flight 4102
Boeing 737-8AS · Bird strike leading to dual engine failure during landing
From Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN) to Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport (CIA)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA09RA010
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 172
- Survivors
- 172
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 10
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 737-8AS
- Flight
- FR4102
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- EI-DYG
- Operator
- Ryanair
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN)To Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport (CIA)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 10 November 2008, Ryanair Flight 4102 from Frankfurt–Hahn Airport, in Hahn, Rhineland-Palatinate to Rome Ciampino Airport, in Rome, Italy, suffered multiple bird strikes while landing. Of the 172 people on board, two crew and eight passengers received hospital treatment for minor injuries. The 8-month-old Boeing 737-800 jet used for the flight sustained a massive amount of damage, which led to it being written off. This accident was the fourth hull loss of a Boeing 737-800 and the only hull loss of a plane operated by Ryanair.
Accident
On the final approach to Rome Ciampino Airport, the jet struck up to 90 starlings, which damaged the port (left) side landing gear and both engines. The flight attempted to execute a missed approach after one engine was damaged, but the remaining engine ingested birds as well and was damaged during this maneuver. After landing, due to the collapsed port-side landing gear, the aircraft veered off of runway 15 for a short time, before the flight crew maneuvered it back onto the runway surface, where it came to a rest.
The final report of the accident, investigated by the National Agency for the Safety of Flight (Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo; ANSV) was released on 20 December 2018, more than 10 years after the accident.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Ryanair Flight 4102” (revision 1363389597, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
NTSB narrative
On November 10, 2008, at 0655 UTC, a Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registered in Ireland as EI-DYG, experienced multiple birdstrikes affecting engine thrust while landing at Ciampino Airport, Rome, Italy. The aircraft subsequently experienced a collapsed left main landing gear upon touchdown. No fatalities or serious injuries occurred. The accident is being investigated by the Italian Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo. (ANSV).
Probable cause
a
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Wikipedia article: Ryanair Flight 4102
- Article
- Ryanair Flight 4102
- Revision
- 1363389597 · 2026-07-09 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q1134591
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA09RA010
- Event ID
- 20081112X84044
- Case number
- DCA09RA010
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Ryanair Flight 4102" (page 25624439, revision 1363389597); merged with NTSB case DCA09RA010 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA09RA010
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Ryanair Flight 4102" and NTSB case DCA09RA010, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.