ThomsonFly 757 bird strike & flames captured on video

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This incident was video recorded by Simon Lowe. 233 people where on board this jet bound for Lanzarote. The number 2 engine sucks in one bird (a crow or corvid) as the plane rotates off the runway.

T.V. news reports of two herons being sucked in are wrong.

Congratulations to the crew and air-traffic controllers for the calm and professional way they dealt with the situation. Please checkout more video's by me on Flightlevel350.com.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: May 3, 2007 at 1:20 am
Author: headintheclouds46

Length: 00:09:36
Rating: 4.83
Views: 1549134

Tags: ThomsonFly 757 Emergency BirdStrike ManchesterAirport G-BYAW Thomson263H

Video Comments:
HabboRoss903 (October 12, 2008 at 3:14 pm)
This Video Is great! But i would like to say a big welldone to the Gorund crew and the Pilots! Should be in the Daily Mirror Awards!
hog2pc (October 11, 2008 at 7:19 pm)
I think you will find its "Bird Blow"
MiiMoko (October 11, 2008 at 4:39 am)
would you like chips with your chicken... bad joke i made but i hope this wont happen when i go overseas ;) less likly
addicted2guitar90 (October 11, 2008 at 3:03 am)
at the beginning after the rotate was that popping coming from the engine?
Sha1tan (October 10, 2008 at 3:42 am)
Nah, to be truly accurate it's an "engine suck".
rideXD (October 9, 2008 at 6:34 pm)
Aircraft - Thompson 253H
Controller says Thompson 263 ? :S :S
BD866 (October 9, 2008 at 7:45 pm)
I think he was just panicking at first when he said '253H,' the actual flight number was TOM263H. I noticed that too, mate.
marty2704 (October 9, 2008 at 2:27 pm)
well, i could not see that the APU Door was opened ... however it is quite possible, that the crew start the APU after landing - which is normal procedure after every landing.
LordXvorthor (October 8, 2008 at 8:09 pm)
This is hardly fake. I'm a liscenced Aeronaughtical engineer and the amount of times my mentors told me the amount of damage a single pidgeon/seagull/geese/blackbirds has stuck in me like my own skin. Birds crashing into a gas turbine engine (Jet engine) at a blade spinning around 50,000 rpm and creating thousands of pounds of thrust is defenitely going to blow the engine up and create an explosion big enough to disable the entire engines operating systems.
A320MD80MX (October 11, 2008 at 5:13 am)
Who's the moron who thought this was fake?