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Ryanair Flight 4102
	EI-DYG, the aircraft involved in the accident at Orio al Serio International Airport, 2 July 2008, four months before the accident
Accident
Date	10 November 2008
Summary	Bird strike leading to dual engine failure during landing
Site	Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport, Rome, Italy ; 41°47′34″N 12°35′57″E / 41.7928°N 12.5992°E
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-8AS
Operator	Ryanair
Call sign	RYANAIR 4102
Registration	EI-DYG
Flight origin	Frankfurt–Hahn Airport, Frankfurt, Germany
Destination	Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport, Rome, Italy
Occupants	172
Passengers	166
Crew	6
Fatalities	0
Injuries	10
Survivors	172

On 10 November 2008, Ryanair Flight 4102 from Frankfurt–Hahn Airport, in Hahn, Rhineland-Palatinate to Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport, in Rome, Italy, suffered multiple bird strikes while landing.^[1] Of the 172 people on board, two crew and eight passengers received hospital treatment for minor injuries.^[2] The 8-month-old Boeing 737-8AS jet used for the flight received a massive amount of damage, which led to it being written off.^[3] This accident represents the fourth hull loss of a Boeing 737-800.^[4]

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a Boeing 737-8AS, MSN 33639, registered as EI-DYG, that was manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 2008. It had logged approximately 2419 airframe hours and 1498 takeoff and landing cycles and it was equipped with two CFM International CFM56-7B26/3 engines.^[5]

Accident

Flight 4102 was commanded by 44-year-old Belgian pilot Frédéric Colson with 10,000 flight hours, of which 6,000 were on the Boeing 737, and his co pilot First Officer Alexander Vet — a Dutch citizen aged 23 with 600 flight hours with 400 being on the 737. The jet struck up to 90 starlings^[4] on final approach to Rome Ciampino Airport 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. It was reported that the aircraft left runway 15 for a short time before the flight crew brought it back onto the runway.^[2]

The final report of the accident, investigated by the National Agency for the Safety of Flight (Italian: Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo; ANSV) was released on 20 December 2018, more than 10 years after the accident.^[6]^[7]

Aftermath

The airport was closed for 36 hours^[8] and all traffic was diverted to Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport due to the jet being stranded on the runway after the port side landing gear collapsed.^[1]^[2]

This accident caused such substantial damage that the aircraft was written off. Ryanair retained ownership of it for certain parts and for training purposes.^[3]