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Lucky escape for 170 at Dabolim
Bird hits two planes
HERALD REPORTER
VASCO, JULY 14
About 170 passengers and crew of a Spicejet flight had a lucky escape, when the plane encountered a bird hit while landing at Dabolim International airport on Tuesday.
In a bizarre sequence of events, the dead bird, which was removed from the plane, got sucked into the turbine engine of another Spicejet plane.
According to sources at the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the SG 803 plane, which was arriving from Ahmedabad via Mumbai, was landing at Dabolim airport at about 1.20 pm, when a bird got trapped in the landing gear of the Spicejet flight.
The pilot alerted the air traffic controller (ATC) that the flight had encountered a bird hit and managed to land the plane safely.
Seven other scheduled flights were then asked to remain in the sky, until the bird-hit plane was towed away from the middle of the runway. Operations at the Dabolim International Airport came to halt for about half an hour, following the incident.
“There was a possibility that the bird-hit incident could have turned into a major mishap,” said a source.
Within half an hour, airline engineers and navy officers
towedthe stranded Spicejet flight from the runway to parking bay No 6 at Dabolim airport. Later, all seven flights landed at the airport in quick succession.
While the stranded Spicejet flight remained at parking bay till late evening as engineers were inspecting the plane, another Spicejet plane, which had landed earlier in the afternoon, was made available to accommodate the 100 stranded passengers back to Ahmedabad.
“However, the dead bird, which was removed from the landing gear of the SG 803 flight, was left on the parking bay,” an engineer told Herald.
The second Spicejet flight was preparing to leave the parking bay, when the dead bird got sucked into the turbine engine of the plane.
The second plane was then stranded for about 40 minutes, as efforts were on to remove the dead bird from the second Spicejet plane.
Engineers removed the dead bird and inspected the aircraft, before the second Spicejet plane was allowed to take off with the 100 passengers at about 3 pm.
An airport official confirmed that two Spicejet planes had been affected due to the bird-hit incident.
Sources informed that the AAI and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have ordered an inquiry into the incident.

The_Goat · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:49 pm Post subject:

Man, that was one vengeful bird..... Wink

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himmat01 · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL

Why was the dead bird left on the tarmac?

shivendrashukla · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:54 pm Post subject:

Brilliant...

HAWK21M · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject:

Normal procedure post Bird strike/Ingestion is to collect the remains of the bird & despatch same in adequate air tight packets to the Investigative agency for Bird strike monitoring.

Total unprofessionalism,as there was no FOD check carried out on the bay too.

regds
MEL.
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flightgearpilot · Member Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 711 Location: VOBL

Never give up! Even after death!! Wow.. Shocked

Spiderguy252 · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject:

Poor bird!

But even weirder than this was the AIX 738 engine taking in an entire peacock during the inaugral KWI-Mangalore flight.

Funnily enough, that 738 had a peacock picture on one of the sides of it's tail. Smile

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Yeah.

iflytb20 · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject:

The_Goat · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject: