Simviation Forum - Spectacular.... but scary.

Apr 30^th, 2007 at 4:50am

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A 757 taking off from Manchester airport ingests two Herons into it's starboard engine. After burning off fuel for 45 mins the aircraft made a safe landing...... The training worked then Grin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6606375.stm

If I can find the footage taken by a spotter at the airport then I'll post a link ....... it is rather spectacular.

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Reply #1 - Apr 30^th, 2007 at 5:37am

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The training worked then

Tell that to the herons Grin

I bet they missed the lesson at heron school that said "Don't stick your head in a working engine" and they regretted it for the rest of their lives Grin

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #2 - Apr 30^th, 2007 at 6:13am

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ozzy72 wrote on Apr 30^th, 2007 at 5:37am:

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The training worked then

Tell that to the herons Grin

I bet they missed the lesson at heron school that said "Don't stick your head in a working engine" and they regretted it for the rest of their lives Grin

How it should be done Grin

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Reply #3 - Apr 30^th, 2007 at 6:22am

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Classic Matt Cool

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #4 - Apr 30^th, 2007 at 1:00pm

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Saw this today at school, whilst it must be scary for the passengers, from what i read on the bbc website no -one was ever in any danger. The engine was shut down as soon as they became aware of the bird in the plane and then it was a, porbably trained for single engine landing. Granted the pilot may be panicing a bit, no wanting to screw it up, but surely they can handle it. The engine never rcaught fire, only the heron so no major danger. Shows the skill pilots to handle a plane on a single engine with everyone watching your landing intently!!!!!

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Reply #5 - Apr 30^th, 2007 at 2:13pm

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Must be the first interesting thing to happen to a Thompson 757 at Manchester Cheesy

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I feel sorry for the herons....beautiful birds...caught this one from a hide at slimbridge yesterday;

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Reply #6 - Apr 30^th, 2007 at 2:21pm

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surely they would have done the usual to clear the area around the runway of birds. From what i read, it happened litteraly less than a minute into the flight so they must have tried to clear them? I guess they did, just didnt work.

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Reply #7 - Apr 30^th, 2007 at 4:00pm

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Hopefully easyjets catering was on the ball and picked up tomorrows in-flight food. Wink

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Reply #8 - May 1^st, 2007 at 5:32pm

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Craig. wrote on Apr 30^th, 2007 at 4:00pm:

Hopefully easyjets catering was on the ball and picked up tomorrows in-flight food. Wink

Easyjet dont fly to manchester Wink

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Reply #9 - May 1^st, 2007 at 5:52pm

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Mictheslik wrote on May 1^st, 2007 at 5:32pm:

Craig. wrote on Apr 30^th, 2007 at 4:00pm:

Hopefully easyjets catering was on the ball and picked up tomorrows in-flight food. Wink

Easyjet dont fly to manchester Wink

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Just a joke mic just a joke Wink

And who said they had to fly there? I said hopefully they were on the ball. Grin

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Reply #10 - May 6^th, 2007 at 3:42am

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Someone else has beaten me to the footage http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1178432526/0#0

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Reply #11 - May 6^th, 2007 at 4:55am

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Heres a better video; more quality:

http://www.flightlevel350.com/Aircraft_Boeing_757-200-Airline_Thomsonfly_Aviatio...

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Reply #12 - May 6^th, 2007 at 5:22am

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Both videos are very good. The YouTube however, actually catches the moment the bird decided to meet it's maker.

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Reply #13 - May 6^th, 2007 at 5:27am

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Fantastic job by the pilots in managing the situation..It could have been a lot worse.

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Reply #14 - May 6^th, 2007 at 7:35am

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Just shows you how well drilled both pilots and controllers are drilled in Emergency proccedures. The pilots, during the entire radio call, seemed calm and collected and were able to give all the details required. The controller as well seemed to be just as calm and had thought ahead to ease the workload for the pilots. When he asks for taxi clearance, the controller says "would a tug make it easier, there is one on standby" Very proffesionally handled IMHO

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