ITV NEWS Thomson Airways Boeing 757 Bird Strike Manchester Airport

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

[@vbscript2]

Gotta love the dramatic reporting, "The dramatic moment when a plane full of holiday-makers came close to disaster." No. No, it did not. It is very rare for a single engine failure on a transport-category jet to be anything close to a "disaster." All competent pilots are routinely trained on how to react to such situations and the aircraft has to be able to do exactly what it did here in order to receive its type certification: continue a takeoff run and climb out after a single engine failure. Also, the engine did not "catch fire." It had repeated compressor surges until it was shut down. Yes, these do expel a scary-looking flame from the back of the engine, but no part of the engine that isn't supposed to be burning is burning. An engine fire is when parts of the engine that aren't supposed to be burning start burning. That's a far more serious emergency, but one which the airplane is still designed to handle. Each engine has a built-in fire suppression system that the pilots can activate to put out an engine fire if one were to occur, but that did not happen here.

[@camy205]

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

[@adamcookie]

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

[@GIRLFROMMARS85]

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

[@benchilling]

The registration of the plane is G-BYAW.

[@poolking01]

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

[@ogoid79]

That must've been scary... ouch!

[@keiraamelie863]

I went on Thomson from Manchester airport to Minorca

[@Adsterz20leh]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@nkindon]

2 herons

[@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.

[@landroversrs1]

Herons ? Acutually a single Carrion crow!

[@Xorue]

did i hear "northbound towards wallasey"

[@jacksatt1uk]

Wallasey is a waypoint used by pilots by manchester airport

[@emmasaviation2968]

Inbound towards wallasey*

[@THREE3.3.3]

I watched this on the news that day

[@eromir247]

wonder how many of them were willing to fly again

[@jeffrey0802]

@salem61 it's still better to declare mayday..just to be sure

[@jonny2k100]

The engine would of had to be replaced, but it's designed for that to happen, instead of the engine just exploding on impact with a bird. Engine manufacturers such as RR throw frozen pieces of meat into engines to simulate bird strikes or debris being sucked into the engine

[@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!

[@philtube717]

it could be a bird attack, this was our home before you came along

[@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)

[@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

[@Adsterz20leh]

Isnt pan pan pan used in extreme circumstances?

[@Joekes1]

on another video it said a crow was sucked in.

[@concorde216]

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

[@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

[@Adsterz20leh]

ahhh i see :) Cheers

[@scottbotham4808]

Only 1 bird was sucked in

[@dylanherald8046]

Thomson 253 Hotel. Five not Six. :)

[@balanced8617]

I was 3 when I was in this and I had received a scar on my head when we landed

[@DeployTheDRS]

Bullshit. The landing was immaculate anyway.

[@Skaa-ee1eb]

In this flight is i in

[@marcbrady7241]

Orachon Skaanoe itv got it wrong. It was 1 and it wasn’t a heron that caused it.

[@alangaming2003]

they was wrong

[@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.

[@lollinlolz]

I Would Crap Myself ! Haha Poor Birds ! X

[@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.

[@Wazzawah]

what toss you are saying !!! grow up

[@Sturzi]

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

[@marcbrady7241]

Sturzi If you see the original video. Everyone cared. Peta will be missed.

[@ZzRvXzZ]

@ThomsonFlyPilot757 liar!

[@informer3000]

"Lanza Rottie", UK FFS