Thirty Ryanair passengers hospitalized in Germany after a drop in pressure on their plane

"Pbadengers complained of head and ear pain and nausea. " A low-cost Irish airline Ryanair, facing a pressure drop in full flight, had to land on Friday, July 13, in Germany, where some thirty pbadengers were hospitalized, the airline said on Saturday. German police and Ryanair.

The aircraft, which carried 189 pbadengers, took off from Dublin and was en route to Zadar, Croatia, when the captain asked to land at an airport west of Frankfurt, Federal police reported to German news agency DPA

The aircraft suffered a drop in pressure, Ryanair said in a statement quoted by DPA. "According to the standard procedure applied by the team, the oxygen masks were made available and a controlled descent was initiated" according to the same source.

The pbadengers were then taken care of on the ground by German helpers and about thirty of them were hospitalized for examinations. Saturday morning, they were all able to leave the hospital, said Frankfurt-Hahn airport, where the aircraft had landed. Another plane was to drive them in the morning to Croatia, according to the airport.