Orlando Plane Aborts takeoff after bird strike!

[JonathanBelles]

Plane aborts Orlando takeoff after worry about bird strike
Reported by: Carly Timmons
Email: ctimmons@abcactionnews.com
Last Update: 6:15 pm

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A plane taking off from Orlando International Airport aborted its takeoff after the crew thought it hit a flock of birds, and an investigation has found damage to one engine consistent with a bird strike.

JetBlue spokeswoman Jenny Dervin says the Airbus A320 was accelerating Saturday morning during a takeoff for New York when the incident occurred.

None of the 136 passengers was injured, and the plane didn't leave the runway but returned to the gate. The passengers were put on another plane to continue their journey, and the plane was undergoing inspection to see if either of its engines had been hit.

The plane is the same type of aircraft that landed in New York City's Hudson River this month after birds were apparently sucked into both of its engines during takeoff.
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[tropicana]

as we were told, bird strikes are really very common in the aviation industry, although most incidents won't go reported since generally the planes land without incident.

Another incident today, Mon Jan 26 2009, in Turkey...

A Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration TC-JRE performing flight TK-1783 from Istanbul Ataturk (Turkey) to Copenhagen (Denmark) with 143 passengers, returned to the Ataturk Airport on one engine, after the left hand engine was struck by a bird. The landing was safe.
A replacement aircraft reached Copenhagen with a delay of 2.5 hours.
The left hand engine received damage to its inlet and fan blades.

-justin-

[tropicana]

Yet another aircraft incident, due no doubt to weather...
but this time, no birds...

Lubbock TX Tue Jan 27 2009
An Empire Airlines Aerospatiale ATR-42-300 on behalf of Fedex, registration N902FX performing freight flight EM-8284 from Fort Worth Alliance,TX [KAFW] to Lubbock,TX (USA) with 2 crew, touched down before runway 17R while landing in Lubbock in freezing fog and a visibility of about 2 miles at 4:36am local (10:36Z). The gear collapsed, the airplane veered to the right, the right wing impacted ground and the airplane caught fire, which was quickly extinguished by emergency services. The two crew walked off the plane and were brought to a local hospital for checkups.

Lubbock was reporting freezing drizzle and freezing fog at the time of the incident, with ceilings just an 500 feet and air temperatures of 18F (minus 8C) Winds were from the North-north east around 10-15mph and visibility was just 2 miles.

-justin-

[Squarethecircle]

Aircraft incidents aren't really that uncommon - what are really rare (and this is accounted for in the yearly death toll) are incidents that cause large amounts of fatalities, and incidents in which clever and quick thinking prevents large amounts of fatalities.

[tropicana]

Mon Feb 2 2009
London, capital of the United Kingdom, has been hit by the most severe snowstorm in the last 18 years (since February 1991) causing trouble all over the area. London Heathrow as well as City Airport had to be closed, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton Airports experience serious delays and many flight cancellations.

A Cyprus Airways Airbus A330-200, registration 5B-DBS performing flight CY-332 from Larnaca (Cyprus) to London Heathrow,EN (UK), had landed at Heathrow and already turned off the runway onto the taxiways, when the nose gear skidded off the taxiway and got stuck in a grassy area. No injuries occured, no damages are being reported.
There are media reports (e.g. in Germany) telling, that the airplane skidded off the runway during landing.

British Airways have cancelled all their flights into and out of London Heathrow and City until 17:00 local (17:00Z), flights to/from Gatwick are subject to long delays and cancellations.

-justin-

[tropicana]

Tue Feb 3 2009
A United Airlines Boeing 757-200, flight UA-77 from Denver,CO to San Francisco,CA (USA) with 145 passengers and 6 crew, ingested a bird with its right hand engine on takeoff from Denver and returned to the airport for a safe landing. No one was injured.

The engine continued to operate after the bird strike. A dent in the engine cowling is visible, the engine is currently being inspected by engineers.
FAA statistics show 257 "wildlife aircraft strikes" at Denver International Airport in 2008.
Bird strikes are more common than people realize, and have been getting more publicity because of what happened in New York.

-justin-

[tropicana]

the difficult lives of pilots that we dont hear about ...

LUFTHANSA LH-467 on Wed Feb 4 2009

The crew of a Lufthansa Airbus A340-300, registration D-AIGO performing flight LH-467 from Miami,FL (USA) to Dusseldorf (Germany), reported a cracked windshield requesting to descend to FL230, when the airplane was at approximately N46 W42 (about 900nm south of Greenland) enroute on NAT track Z. ATC could not clear the airplane down due to two conflicting aircraft at FL340 and FL330. The Lufthansa crew declared emergency, advised they had the conflicting traffic on their TCAS, executed oceanic contingency procedures and descended to FL230, then cancelled the emergency and continued to destination.

[vbhoutex]

the difficult lives of pilots that we dont hear about ...

LUFTHANSA LH-467 on Wed Feb 4 2009

The crew of a Lufthansa Airbus A340-300, registration D-AIGO performing flight LH-467 from Miami,FL (USA) to Dusseldorf (Germany), reported a cracked windshield requesting to descend to FL230, when the airplane was at approximately N46 W42 (about 900nm south of Greenland) enroute on NAT track Z. ATC could not clear the airplane down due to two conflicting aircraft at FL340 and FL330. The Lufthansa crew declared emergency, advised they had the conflicting traffic on their TCAS, executed oceanic contingency procedures and descended to FL230, then cancelled the emergency and continued to destination.

Are you kidding me? They should have moved the other aircraft asap and allowed the descent instead of forcing them to declare an emergency!!

[gtalum]

It takes time to move planes around. Would you rather a cracked windshield turn into a collision?

Further, the media almost always gets aviation stories wrong on the first try.

[vbhoutex]

It takes time to move planes around. Would you rather a cracked windshield turn into a collision?

Further, the media almost always gets aviation stories wrong on the first try.

What do you think? I didn't say they should have done it haphazardly. I said they should have done it instead of forcing them to declare an emergency and do it anyway. Which would be less dangerous? Would you rather the pilots take the risk of the window im/exploding and totally disabling the airplane. Show me where the media got it wrong.

[pojo]

Being a pilot myself & flying with the Hurricane Hunters we have common arguments with ATC dispatchers. There are times we ask to descend and can't because of conflicting aircraft below us.... it is common for this to happen.

As for bird strikes, we hit a flock of birds at Keesler and took a bird in engine 1 (we have turbo-props) and the engines were in full reverse thrust. That same day our sister squadron came back with a bird cooking in Engine 4.

As for my training flights in at Little Rock AFB, 3 out of the 5 flights were bird strike flights. This happens all to frequently.