Thomson airways bird strike itv news report manchester airport fire

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Thomson airways flight from manchester to lanzarote(more explained in video)at 9.15am on the 29/4/07 as two large herons got sucked into the engine starboard

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[ThePianoMusicGuy]

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

[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.

[Dieselducy2]

Mike86 you cant get on the same flight as another (i flew with thomson not that long ago it was perfectly fine to spain)

[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"

[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.

[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.

[ZzRvXzZ]

@ThomsonFlyPilot757

liar!

[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.

[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

[landroversrs1]

Herons ? Acutually a single Carrion crow!