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Looks like the bird may have lived.

A Southwest Airlines plane carrying 147 passengers to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sustained engine trouble after hitting birds, forcing it to return to Havana for an emergency landing Sunday, according to NBC News. Officials said Southwest Airlines Flight 3923 "experienced bird strikes to an engine and the aircraft's nose shortly after takeoff," resulting in smoke filling the cabin. According to Cuban Aviation Corporation S.A., Cuba's civil aviation authority, pilots became aware of the Boeing 737 engine issues after the collision with the birds. A cellphone video filmed in the cabin made its way through social media, showing passengers panicking as the...

J-15 Emergency Landing with Engine Fire after Bird Strike

Video at link. Boeng 757-200 at 30,000ft. The related article is at www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-5026537/Oklahoma-City-Thunder-stunned-bird-clashes-plane.html

Remember that bird strike in April that forced a Delta flight to make an emergency landing? The actual incident was caught on video by author Grant Cardone, who is now on some FAA "you're a troublemaker" list because he shot that video when his iPad was supposed to be turned off. Cardone was on CNN this morning to discuss the letter he'd received from the FAA's Supervisory Principal Operations Inspector regarding the incident. Reads the letter: "Your failure to comply with flight attendant instructions during a critical phase of flight and an aircraft emergency could have affected the safe outcome...

NEW YORK (CBS) — A Delta flight, bound for Los Angeles, made an emergency landing Thursday at John F. Kennedy International Airport because of a bird strike. The FAA said Delta Flight 1063, a Boeing 757, declared an emergency for an engine related problem shortly after takeoff at 3:10 p.m. “It was absolutely terrifying,” Grant Cardone, author and Huffington Post contributor, told KNX 1070. “I picked up my iPad and for some odd reason, started videoing the takeoff of this flight. The next thing I see come across the iPad screen is a flock of black birds hit the engine....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An eagle was sucked into an engine of an Alaska Airlines jet as the aircraft was taking off from a small southeast Alaska town Sunday, causing the flight to be aborted. Seattle-bound Flight 68 was approaching takeoff speed when the eagle was ingested into the left engine shortly after 10 a.m. in Sitka. None of the 134 passengers or five crew members was hurt. (snip) The bird collision automatically shut off the plane's engine, airline spokesman Paul McElroy said. McElroy said the jet braked to a stop about 3,000 feet from the end of the 6,500-foot runway,...

United jet safely stops takeoff at San Jose airport after bird strike Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer February 16, 2009 SAN JOSE -- The pilot of a United Airlines jetliner preparing for take-off this morning out of Mineta San Jose International Airport stopped the plane and shut off one of its engines after striking a flock of seagulls. United jet safely stops takeoff at San Jose airport after bird strike 02.16.09 Flight No. 1220 - carrying 97 passengers and bound for Denver - was rolling down the runway at 120 knots, or 138.2 miles per hour, when it hit the...

1. Birds Could birds have got into the engine? "Bird Strike" is a well-known problem in aviation. Even a few birds could break a component which would be sucked into the rest of the engine. # Co-pilot saved stricken Heathrow airliner They can also interrupt the airflow, which is vital. The damage would depend on how many had been ingested. Accident investigators search the area for debris from the crashed jet Accident investigators search the surrounding area for debris from the crashed jet The strange sound of the engine has given this theory some credence. But Heathrow is regarded as...

Sacramento County plans to burn down Karl Yuki’s home. (LIE LIE LIE) The Yuki family home is on a 90-acre pear orchard near the Sacramento River north of Sacramento International Airport. “Our family had lived there for quite a while, over 50 years. We were leasing it from the airport,” Yuki explained. The family gave up farming and moved to Lodi about a year ago. Although the house is unoccupied, the orchard remains a home for crows, various small birds and squirrels. Occasionally, coyotes and deer are seen. The airport has plans to transform the orchard into an environment specifically...