Thomson airways bird strike itv news report manchester airport fire

[mike86183]

I was on that flight but i got off half way's to wallasey

[SophieEB91]

My cousin was on this flight she is an air hostess with thomson

[Xorue]

did i hear "northbound towards wallasey"

[landroversrs1]

Herons ? Acutually a single Carrion crow!

[MilesProwerTails]

wonder how many of them were willing to fly again

[poolking01]

it wasn't a bird strike, it was Chuck Norris grabbing a free ride to Lanzarote.....

[ThomsonFlyPilot757]

I was the pilot on that day and without the co-pilot, I really don't think we could of managed that landing. Thank you Mark Evans

[ZzRvXzZ]

@ThomsonFlyPilot757

liar!

[masere]

This video is on many sites with a slo-mo addition of the bird strike and more tower comms (the pilot is told Liverpool is available to land at too). I was at MAN the other week and a Qatar jet suffered a birdstrike upon landing. I watched as a Jet2 and a Thomson/Thomas Cook (can't remember which) aborted their landings while a woman drove onto the runway and picked up bits of the bird, whilst the two jets circled around before landing

[camy205]

Those plans are incredibly safe. I love how they can fly with just one engine.

[mrlittleluke123]

I watched this on the news that day

[LiveByTheCreed2010]

lol 1:25 a random thomas cook flashes past :D

[samsterdahamster]

I went to lanzarote 2 years ago, i used Monarch airlines instead. What happened? did they survive? i dont have sound so if they mentioned it in the video then i didn't hear it.

[GMuzicc]

Air scanners in the UK ARE illegal, however the police do not usually enforce this law as long as you are only listening for personal entertainment and not being any source of threat.

Also, it would be a bad idea to land on that amount of fuel with only one engine, as need for a go around would require more engine power, which would make the plane sheer to the right very quickly if you weren't very careful. Also it just makes more sense to burn some fuel before you land. I'm no expert however :)

[kingpav]

@GMuzicc Scanners aren't illegal and never have been, tuning them into Police frequencies was illegal but there was no way the Police could find out who was listening in. The Police have used a truncated radio system for a few years now which you won't be able to earwig but you can still get all the rest. If they would have been illegal you wouldn't have been able to go to any radio store and buy on off the shelf.

[BentleyWiseTurtle]

poor birds.

[mavladd]

to burn off fuel are you fucking kidding lol he would have to go around to land you daft twat if he shuts the engin down its not going to burn off fuel. i think the hes was tinking about saving the passengers not panicing about fuel.

[CombatKidz]

i'm scared now, lol..i'm also going with thomson

[angelofdarkness49]

oh my god imagine being sat near the window next to the engine and you see it bursting out fire! lol! i would be getting the bog roll out my suitcase in a flash

[danlee1234]

fpmsl

[lollinlolz]

I Would Crap Myself !

Haha Poor Birds !

X

[lee4marshall94]

"No One Was Hurt"

What about the birds :/ lol

[Bucketheadhead]

Who gives a flying fuck lol

[nkindon]

2 herons

[blackout1148]

on another video it said a crow was sucked in.

[TranceMan1818]

and scanners are illegal but they say it on the tv

[Dudeboy4000]

Only in some places. It is not actually illegal to use a scanner in the UK

[concorde216]

only illegal if you act on the information that you recieve from them.

[manovleedz]

1 bird

[tesenki]

Well a lots of pilots here! Haha

At first i suggest to all of u to take a pilot exam. Then if all of u became a pilot next training is landing a jet stricktly with one engine.

I almost forget about learning couple of years being a pilot.

If these done I think u can discuss this Mayday,PanPan problem(very very big problem) next to beer in the pub.

Good luck!

[cgfatcat81]

A good level of primary school English would also be advantageous!

[jeffreygoddijn]

@salem61

it's still better to declare mayday..just to be sure

[Dudeboy4000]

Isnt pan pan pan used in extreme circumstances?

[mcgregs10]

no. pan pan pan is a minor problem. it isn't as serious as a mayday mayday mayday.

[Dudeboy4000]

ahhh i see :)

Cheers

[lozzy170]

thats making me nervous about going on a airoplane 4 my hliday soon :'(

[meggydanny]

what is the Aircraft Registration?

[carlsberg10]

g-byaw

[salem61]

Normally a Maday call sent after the loss of an engine and if there is no fire the call can be degraded to a Pan Pan, after completing the shut down.

[Sturzi]

...and nobody cares about that poor birdie;-)

[teedot]

i would be more concerned about the hundreds of people inside then plane, rather then the stupid bird that caused the problem in the first place.

[Slashfan90210]

People seem to be missing out that a bird strike is taken seriously. When RR, GE etc test their engines, they actually throw pigeons into the turbine, even something as small as a sparrow could cause the engine to probably explode. Flying on just one engine is a hard thing to do, and when you've got 200+ lives on board, you'd have to send a mayday to enable yourself to get down quickly before something really bad happens.

[shinden58]

Declaring a May Day tells the tower that you have major problems and you can instantly get priority treatment if you request it. Trying to land with full fuel is not an option in some transport category aircraft. They can take off heaver than they can land, so they head out fly a holding pattern and burn or dump fuel till they are light enough to land.

[turbotraker]

yeah ok, Pigeons and Sparrows are OK, but lets try throwing an Ostrich in the engine!!

[ramboormark]

@Slashfan90210 engine to explode? the engines dont explode mate. they are all made to contain any event within the engine so it can be shutdown. a 747 had an engine failure after takeoff from new york and flew all the way to england on 3 engines completely fine. on one engine u can either hold rudder in to correct or trim the rudder. they didnt want to get down quickly because there t/o mass was above the lm mass so they had to stay up and burn fuel or jettison some before landing. u = bs mate

[ollerverh]

@ramboormark no. not that long ago, maybe 2 years ago, an SAS flight had ice injected into the engine and the engine exploded. it made a crash landing in a forest.

[Pvjinflight]

@ollerverh No, they didnt explode. Both of those engines shut down, but they didnt explode. Engine failure where parts of engine break away are very rare.

[M4TTD0GG]

y are people goin on sayin its was nt a mayday and was only 1 engine. incase u didnt notice that pilot has 200+ lives on his hands. the engine cud ov done anyfin, it cud have completley blown of the aircraft and distorted the wing and such. the thing is u never kno.

[Wazzawah]

what toss you are saying !!! grow up

[chrisegcconline]

The fire on engine 2 would be from repeated compressor stalls, as hot gases are re-ingested by the engine

[AirMalta89]

Indeed, a birdstrike resulting in an engine failure is a mayday call. However, I hate the way the news reporters make a drama out of it - it is a standard procedure to fly a Boeing 757 on one engine, something the pilots have done hundreds of times on the simulator. It is nothing that proposes direct danger to life.

Cockpit fire would be something by far more serious...

The Crew handled it well, but it is their Profession, one would expect them to be able to handle such a situation.

[nxge]

swiss air 111 declared pan pan pan when they had smoke in the cockpit!

[TomB773]

see the whole video @ flightlevel350com

wait till the end, it zooms in on the birds and shows when the birds get sucked into the engine

[TomB773]

see the whole video @ flightlevel350com

[GIRLFROMMARS85]

please don't joke, I can tell you myself, was an extremely scary experience but hats of to pilots and crew, handled superbly!

[HoustonRocket101]

"was an extremely scary experience" Am I to believe you were actually on this flight?

[topjetboy]

Nicely done, I only hope we can all emulate their performance if it happens to us. Well done to all the crew and trainers at TOM.

[TwoBitBob]

I wouldn't have called a Mayday I think a Panpan call would have been sufficient. I dislike the "close to disaster" comment from the newsreader...

[adamcookie]

Engine failure is a mayday.. Weather or not the plane can fly with just one engine is totally irrelevent!

[TwoBitBob]

Weather (sic) you know about Mayday calls is irrelevant to me, I didn't mention anything about weather (sic) it could fly on one engine but a mayday call stems from the French for "M'aide" meaning "help me" and as a trained airline pilot I will only use Mayday in dire circumstances when we CANNOT fly and a Pan pan call in matters of urgency. This engine was NOT even on fire, although one can see flames. Engine failure is NOT a mayday call, and I never call a Mayday on my simulator check rides.

[toranamunter]

its very relevant. Mayday means imminent danger to life. There is no imminent danger to life with an engine failure in a jet aircraft. You sound a little bit confused with small piston powered aircraft, its different in the airliners.

[mruppity64]

I agree, he's calling mayday, but is retracting his gear, climbing and going off to Wallasey - Declaring a PanPan would have been better, then upgrade the call if necessary.

But at the end of the day its only relevant if there is another mayday going on, as he would have had priority over everybody else anyway, as he had declared an emergency.

[ThePianoMusicGuy]

He's a pilot, I think he knows what he's doing.

[elpiloto69]

Well done to the two pilots who handled it... That's what we train for lads!

[razorfoundation]

perhaps a couple of urban-depressive emo-birds with suicidal tendencies? hehe

[ogoid79]

That must've been scary... ouch!