An investigation is being carried out after a Ryanair flight from Liverpool, operated by Eirjet, landed by mistake at a British Army base instead of the City of Derry airport.
No-one was injured in the incident and the 39 passengers on board were able to leave the aircraft and were taken to Eglinton by coach.
The Airbus 320 aircraft has been grounded at Ballykelly British Army base while civil aviation authorities begin an investigation.
Ryanair said there was an error by the Eirjet pilot who mistakenly believed he was on a visual approach to the City of Derry airport, which is about six miles away.
Ryanair launches five new Shannon flights
Ryanair has announced five new services out of Shannon starting next October.
The flights are to Biarritz and Carcassonne in the south of France, Faro in Portugal, Krakow in Poland and Venice in Italy.
This will bring the number of routes it serves out of Shannon to 24 and the company plans to base a new Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Shannon to service the new destinations.
It is also increasing the frequency of its services each week to Girona, Malaga, and Milan from October.
Speaking at the announcement in Limerick this morning, Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said cheap flights alone were not enough to bring extra European passengers into the Shannon region in the 'shoulder' months of the winter.
Niall Gibbons of Tourism Ireland said 2005 was a year of mixed fortunes for the foreign tourists trade here.
While there was an increase of 20% overall from Europe, the majority of tourists visited urban rather than regional centres.
