HOLIDAYMAKERS were left stunned after an elderly Ryanair passenger in a wheelchair was “left behind” following a bizarre airline blunder.
Flight FR 6700 was due to depart from Bordeaux, France, at 10pm yesterday bound for Edinburgh.
PAThe pilot was forced to do a U-turn after realising a passenger had been left behind[/caption]
But the journey was delayed by more than two hours.
Things then took a turn for the worse when it emerged that an elderly wheelchair user had been left behind as the plane was taxiing for take off.
One shocked passenger claims the pilot was forced to do a U-turn on the runway after being informed that a “personal item” left behind was, in fact, a passenger and her companion.
The flight eventually touched down in Edinburgh at 1.12am, more than two hours later than scheduled.
Travellers then faced another long wait on the runway as the crew waited for a stance.
The eyewitness told The Scottish Sun: “The pilot apologised repeatedly at the start and the end of the flight.
“He was really apologetic to the specific passenger, saying he’d been told it was a personal item that had been left behind only to be updated it was a passenger when he finally arrived back at the stance.
“He said something about staff in the airport being overwhelmed.”
The weary passenger claims it then took another 40 minutes to get through passport control at Edinburgh Airport.
They added: “They got us on the buses where we waited 5-10 minutes before they finally got us to the terminal, which was rammed.
“It took close to 40 minutes to get through passport control, though the elderly passenger would have been front of the queue.
“It was about 2.20am before I got out, with a massive queue still behind me.”
Ryanair has been approached for comment.
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