Call it Ryanairing on empty.

A Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing after coming within minutes of running out of fuel in flight.

“Everything was fine until we started our descent,” Alexander Marchi, who was on the ill-fated flight, told the Ayr Advertiser while painting the “dramatic” scene.

The Boeing 737-800 had been flying from Pisa, Italy to Glasgow, Scotland on October 3, when the crew members realized they were nearly out of gas and issued a “fuel mayday.” 3

This reportedly occurred at the same time that Storm Amy was lashing parts of Scotland with 100mph winds, disrupting the nation’s transit network and prompting cancellation of several flights, rail and ferry services, The Herald reported.

A Flight Radar X post detailing the flight’s route shows t

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