Her plane landed safely at Belfast International Airport, but that site already had a heavier than usual schedule so the diverted passengers faced more delays.
“They weren’t expecting us, so we then had to wait another 25 minutes before they would get the bus to get us off the plane into the terminal, and then it took another 25 minutes to get the luggage.”
Many people then had to start making arrangements to get back to their cars at Belfast City Airport.
Ms Bratton said her fellow passengers only realised what had happened to the Aer Lingus plane after they landed.
“When a couple of people brought it up on the phone, everybody was a bit shocked that there’d been quite a serious incident at the city airport.”
Staff from Dublin Airport’s airfield operations team were deployed to Belfast on Sunday evening to help move the damaged plane.
They also brought aircraft recovery equipment, with a spokesman for Dublin Airport Authority telling BBC News NI: “We are happy to help our neighbouring airport.”