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Bird strike knocks out Qantas engine
A 737-400 ingested a bird about 15 mins after takeoff, and had to return to Darwin. Scary!
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...849388143.html |
I've done the reverse flight (QF800 CNS/DRW), so can understand theconcern of some paxs.
Press Photog, hope you've read this...that might be your flight on the way back... |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by aura: A 737-400 ingested a bird about 15 mins after takeoff, and had to return to Darwin. Scary!</font> A bird ingested a 737-400 about 15 mins after takeoff, and had to return to Darwin. |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by shillard: Scary? Not as scary as: A bird ingested a 737-400 about 15 mins after takeoff, and had to return to Darwin. </font> nah ... what about: A bird ingested a 737-400 about 15 mins after takeoff, and was able to continue its flight unconcerned... |
How about a frozen chicken?
I don't even know where to go with this one... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif (and edited to fix UBB code) [This message has been edited by willyroo (edited 08-05-2003).] |
Lets say the incident (brid v/s 737 or 737 v/s bird) occurred 15 minutes after t/o. Altitude would have been - say 25,000 feet. What sort of bird flies that high?
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by og: Altitude would have been - say 25,000 feet. What sort of bird flies that high?</font> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Qantas was still investigating what went wrong, ...</font> I thought it was fairly obvious what went wrong, though I have no experience if the result was the usual side affect of a bird strike. |
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