Spectacular.... but scary.

[eno]

A 757 taking off from Manchester airport ingests two Herons into it's starboard engine.  After burning off fuel for 45 mins the aircraft made a safe landing...... The training worked then  ;D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 606375.stm

If I can find the footage taken by a spotter at the airport then I'll post a link ....... it is rather spectacular.

[ozzy72]

The training worked then

Tell that to the herons I bet they missed the lesson at heron school that said "Don't stick your head in a working engine" and they regretted it for the rest of their lives

[expat]

The training worked then

Tell that to the herons I bet they missed the lesson at heron school that said "Don't stick your head in a working engine" and they regretted it for the rest of their lives

How it should be done  ;D

[ozzy72]

Classic Matt 8-) 8-) 8-)

[FsNovice]

Saw this today at school, whilst it must be scary for the passengers, from what i read on the bbc website no -one was ever in any danger. The engine was shut down as soon as they became aware of the bird in the plane and then it was a, porbably trained for single engine landing. Granted the pilot may be panicing a bit, no wanting to screw it up, but surely they can handle it. The engine never rcaught fire, only the heron so no major danger. Shows the skill pilots to handle a plane on a single engine with everyone watching your landing intently!!!!!

[Mictheslik]

Must be the first interesting thing to happen to a Thompson 757 at Manchester :D

I feel sorry for the herons....beautiful birds...caught this one from a hide at slimbridge yesterday;


.mic

[FsNovice]

surely they would have done the usual to clear the area around the runway of birds. From what i read, it happened litteraly less than a minute into the flight so they must have tried to clear them? I guess they did, just didnt work.

[Craig.]

Hopefully easyjets catering was on the ball and picked up tomorrows in-flight food.

[Mictheslik]

Hopefully easyjets catering was on the ball and picked up tomorrows in-flight food.

Easyjet dont fly to manchester

.mic

[Craig.]

Hopefully easyjets catering was on the ball and picked up tomorrows in-flight food.

Easyjet dont fly to manchester

.mic

Just a joke mic just a joke
And who said they had to fly there? I said hopefully they were on the ball.

[eno]

Someone else has beaten me to the footage http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 432526/0#0

[DizZa]

Heres a better video; more quality:

http://www.flightlevel350.com/Aircraft_ ... -8457.html

[expat]

Both videos are very good. The YouTube however, actually catches the moment the bird decided to meet it's maker.

Matt

[Papa9571]

Fantastic job by the pilots in managing the situation..It could have been a lot worse.

[FsNovice]

Just shows you how well drilled both pilots and controllers are drilled in Emergency proccedures.  The pilots, during the entire radio call, seemed calm and collected and were able to give all the details required. The controller as well seemed to be just as calm and had thought ahead to ease the workload for the pilots. When he asks for taxi clearance, the controller says "would a tug make it easier, there is one on standby" Very proffesionally handled IMHO