An Eastern Airlines MU6996 flying to Taiyuan Wusu at Chongqing Jiangbei Airport was hit by a bird shortly after takeoff late on the 22nd and returned with a cracked front windshield.
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Comprehensive land media on April 23 news, 22 night at 23:33 Chongqing Jiangbei Airport, an Eastern Airlines MU6996 take off, ready to fly to Taiyuan Wusuku, but shortly after the flight was hit by a bird. Flight attendants said the plane took off, about 10 minutes after the bird hit. Passengers said that the front windshield of the plane was cracked after the bird strike. After that, the plane returned to the emergency flight.
The staff of the Chongqing Sales Department of China Eastern Airlines told the media that there were 128 passengers on board, and after suffering a bird strike, the plane returned to the airport at 6 a.m. on the 23rd and left on another flight at 8:15 a.m. No one on board was injured!
According to the flight data, the aircraft took off at 23:33 on the 22nd and returned at 0:08 on the 23rd.
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Industry insiders said that bird strikes are currently one of the factors that threaten aviation safety, the reason why birds can crash the aircraft, this is because the damage mainly from the speed of the aircraft rather than the mass of the birds themselves.
According to the momentum theorem, a 0.45-kg bird colliding with an aircraft traveling at 800 kilometers per hour would generate an impact of 153 kilograms; a large 7-kg bird hitting an aircraft traveling at 960 kilometers per hour would have an impact of 144 tons.
Before that, a J-10 fighter plane of the Chinese Communist Army crashed after being hit by a bird.
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s military newspaper in October last year, Wang Jiandong, a pilot of a brigade of air force in the southern war zone, flew the plane into the air before the incident to carry out training in confrontational air combat, but during the lift-off process, the fighter plane was hit by a flying bird, resulting in a crash in no-man’s land, but fortunately there were no casualties.
The CCTV broadcast of the black box recorded 37 seconds before the fighter plane hit the ground, the fighter plane was rising to 267 meters, the lower right side of the two birds flew head-on, followed by a “bang”, the fuselage jolted, the aircraft beeping alarm then loud, the display screen synchronized “warning The word “warning” and sound appeared on the display.
Wang Jian-dong reported to the command center to return immediately, referring to “No. 1, 635 hit the bird”, the command center asked Wang Jian-dong to check the engine, Wang replied has stopped running. The fighter kept falling, and three seconds later the fighter crashed, Wang Jian-dong emergency pull down the ejection handle parachute, landing in an orchard.
It is reported that aircraft are most likely to be hit by birds during the takeoff and landing phases. The aviation industry calls this the black 11 minutes, which is three minutes after takeoff and eight minutes before landing. The flight altitude is low, when the aircraft’s maneuverability is poor and its ability to cross obstacles is low. If a bird strike or wind shear occurs during the aircraft’s downward landing phase, the consequences will be fatal.
However, most birds are unable to fly at aircraft altitude, and most bird strikes occur during the takeoff and landing phases of an aircraft. If a rare high-altitude bird strike does occur, it is safe to follow normal landing procedures as long as one engine is not damaged.
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