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Thomson Fly B757 double bird strike at Manchester

submitted by Zifnab

1 decade 6 years 10 months 4 weeks ago

A Boeing 757-200 aircraft operated by British low fare carrier Thomsonfly made an emergency landing shortly after departure from Manchester (UK) airport yesterday morning after two large birds, described in news reports as herons, were ingested into the aircraft's number two engine. According to BBC News, the flight was carrying 221 passengers, and was en route from Manchester to Arrecife, Lazarote in the Canary Islands. No one was injured.

The bird strike occurred moments after rotation. Smoke and flames could be seen pulsing from the starboard engine during climb out. The engine was shut down, the crew declared a MAYDAY, and the aircraft returned to Manchester Airport where it made a safe emergency landing. Congratulations to the crew for that happy ending. April 30, 2007 (From Aircrew Buzz)

9 Comments

Poor Herons

but still, that's pretty good engineering and piloting.

i know for a fact i've seen that footage on here before, but in raw form without the newscast. the noise the engine made while trying to deal with the carnage made chills run down my spine.

EDIT: well, couldn't find it here, but i found it on teh utubes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6zeTGPZA_A

flechette says...

And here's the already sifted non-reporter version that's on the sift:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jetplane-birdstrike-filmed-by-planespotter

*spacy

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coolhund says...

Wow, that had to be some huge birds. These engines are built to shred small birds and still run without a problem.

*nochannel *wings *wtf *british *travel

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