A Ryanair jet has slid off the runway at Prestwick airport in Scotland after hitting a patch of ice.

It happened after the plane landed just after 9am this morning.

No one on board was hurt and passengers disembarked normally.

The main runway has now been closed and Ryanair engineers are examining the aircraft which doesn’t appear to have been damaged.

Dublin man Stephen Bray was on board.

“We were running out of runway and you could feel the wheels really starting to slip on the ice – I’d imagine the pilot was trying to burn at the end of the runway” he said.

“There was a female pilot – handled it very well”.

“There was nowhere for the plane to go – it overshot the runway, went about 100 metres into the grass and all the wheels are buried a metre and half or two metres up in the grass, they’re gone well down out of sight”.

“You can’t see any of the tires” he added.