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		</div><p><strong>Update: 3.14pm</strong></p>
<p>Ryanair has paid 525,000 euros (£457,000) in subsidies back to French authorities to end a tarmac standoff that forced 149 passengers to disembark from an impounded plane.</p>
<p>The French civil aviation authority said it had seized the plane at Bordeaux-Merignac airport as a “last resort” after France repeatedly tried to get Ryanair to pay back regional funds to the airline in 2008/09.<br />
The European Commission later ruled those funds illegal, saying they gave Ryanair an unfair economic advantage.</p>
<p>The aviation authority called it “regrettable that the state was forced” to evacuate the plane on Thursday. It said the passengers were put on another Ryanair flight five hours later.<br />
Ryanair did not publicly comment on the seizure.</p>
<p>Aviation authority spokesman Eric Heraud said the airline had paid back the funds and the plane would be released.</p>
<p><strong>Earlier</strong>:<br />
France impounds Ryanair plane on tarmac before take-off French authorities have seized a Ryanair plane and forced 149 passengers to disembark because of a dispute over subsidies to the Irish airline.</p>
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