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Passenger Plane With An Engine On Fire, Making Emergency Landing At Rockford Airport
Allegiant Air has a bird strike shortly after takeoff and makes an emergency landing in Rockford (rockfordscanner.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The video shows the results of an engine failure inflight. That's what it looks like coming out the engine tail pipe during darkness. It would be beneficial to know if they found the results of a bird strike on fan blades etc. It's dark out, obviously icy cold, had been snowing and brings up the question of why geese or any other bird would be flying around in those conditions. The folks on the ground could tell within minutes of a visual inspection whether it was bird fod or the result of ice fod. Nothing in this article speaks of the results of any such inspection. Just curious. Fortunately this didn't happen at three in the morning at the Boise, Id. airport.
Years ago RFD allowed dog owners to chase off the Canada Geese...but, some animal rights nuts put a stop to that (and TSA assholes). So, the Geese are there. There is also a giant trash dump just about a mile south that the geese love to hang out at. Plus the river that is right there...
AVHerald reports it as a bird.
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a22e85f&opt=0
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a22e85f&opt=0
Thank you for your post and link.
Well, Rickie sounds like a 5th grader, judging by his writings here. Maybe should stick to his rodeo riding instead, eh?
Here is a video of the bird strike from inside the plane. Pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLOr_pfzTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLOr_pfzTA