Birdstrike!

[Boomeranger]

Picked up from elsewhere on the net...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ae_1183872776


Andy

 

[gcgrotz]

Whew! Glad they made it safely, great bit of flying, lots of time in the sim paid off.

 

[N4JNW]

Good vid....

That radar scanner on top of the tower was spinning a bit fast wasn't it???

 

[Deepsky]

I bet those passengers were puckered pretty good!

 

[Jay911]

Good vid....

That radar scanner on top of the tower was spinning a bit fast wasn't it???

If I remember correctly from my last visit to a control tower, that will be the ground radar for the immediate vicinity of the airport, and they want it to be that fast so they see anything causing a runway incursion. Our local airport can pick up a person at the end of the longest runway with their ground radar.

The last time I saw the video, the ambient volume was much louder on the initial takeoff roll, and you could hear the engine pulsing every time it popped out some fire.

 

[N4JNW]

The ground control radar is way up there on top of the tower? I figured it'd be a weather radar or something..

I've heard of ground control radars, but never actually seen one in person.

So what was the engine's deal? Did it's ingestion of the bird cause it to start misfiring? You'd thing it'd just sucked it in and chopped it up, like in the infamous "frozen chicken" video that's been all over TV. The one where it shows in slow motion a chicken being launched into a turbine..

Still a good vid... Nice find!

 

[CLB]

I bet those passengers were puckered pretty good!

Couldn't get a stickpin up their butts with a sledgehammer.

Excellent job on the crew's part.

 

[bessiedawg]

I don't mean to sound like a spoil sport, but that video looks like a simulation to me. Especailly when the jet appears accelerating up the runway. The flames from the engines also appear very bright also.

I could be wrong, but it just looks funny to me.

 

[Jay911]

Erm.. okay, if you say so:

Bird strike causes emergency landing at Manchester Airport

30.04.07

A passenger aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at Manchester Airport yesterday after two heron birds were sucked into one of its engines. The birds had become caught in the starboard engine, causing flames to fly out the back.

The pilot sent out a distress call minutes after the Thomsonfly Boeing 757 took off at 09:15 on its way to Arrecife, Lanzarote. The pilot shut the starboard engine down, circled the plane and dumped excess fuel before landing back at Manchester Airport around 10:30. The 221 passengers onboard disembarked safely and continued their journey on a different flight around 13:00.

A Manchester Airport spokesman said: 'Within minutes of being in the air, the plane suffered a double bird strike. The aircraft's engines are designed to cope with bird strikes but because this case involved two very large birds being sucked in at once there were problems.'

The spokesman emphasised that the engine itself did not catch fire, but the debris had burnt and given off smoke. He said the plane could have safely flown with one engine but the pilot felt it prudent to have the damage checked out. At no point were passengers in danger, he added.

 

[rbts]

Compared to the size of the engines on a 757, that wasn't a small bird that was ingested.

Good link to read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor_stall

That article gives a general idea of what's going on with the engine.

 

[bpckty1]

Having been on a 747 that struck a seagull at JFK during takeoff, the flame produced is pretty bright. I was seated ahead of the engine, so, it was just fireworks to me. But a flight attendant, whose job was to monitor that wing, needed help off the plane, and that was 2 hours after the birdstrike. Talk about a case of flash blindness.

What fun we passengers had watching Long Island's darkening and twinkling as street lights came on at sunset as the plane circled the island burning enough fuel to safely land without breaking the wings off upon landing. I suspect the misty stream from the wing tips had nothing to do with water vapor, but nothing was mentioned about what this phenom might be.
;^>

 

[rbts]

Having been on a 747 that struck a seagull at JFK during takeoff, the flame produced is pretty bright. I was seated ahead of the engine, so, it was just fireworks to me. But a flight attendant, whose job was to monitor that wing, needed help off the plane, and that was 2 hours after the birdstrike. Talk about a case of flash blindness.

What fun we passengers had watching Long Island's darkening and twinkling as street lights came on at sunset as the plane circled the island burning enough fuel to safely land without breaking the wings off upon landing. I suspect the misty stream from the wing tips had nothing to do with water vapor, but nothing was mentioned about what this phenom might be.
;^>

Ah, a firsthand experience on a FOUR engine aircraft.

 

[bessiedawg]

The much feared "three engine landing" !