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Erlanger

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Frontier trying to get in on the fame. What's that river that flows through Kansas City? It'd be "Miracle on the __________."

Frontier A319 at Kansas City on Nov 14th 2009, birds ingested in both engines
A Frontier Airlines Airbus A319-100, flight F9-820 from Kansas City,MO to Denver,CO (USA) with 129 people on board, departed Kansas City's runway 01R climbing through about 4000 feet, when the airplane flew through a flock of birds ingesting birds into both engines. The airplane stopped climb at 5000 feet, the crew needed to shut the right hand engine down and returned to Kansas City's runway 01L for a safe landing 9 minutes later.

Both engines received damages.

The flight had to be cancelled.
 
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Not really all that uncommon, just uncommon in the media when the plane lands uneventfully. Delta had two dual engine bird strikes the last few years... 1 in Rome on a 767-400 (pilots on that one got the ALPA superior airmanship award 2 years ago) and 1 in Nice on a 767-300. I've been shown pictures of a American 737 that trashed both engines with birds....
 
Miracle on Red?
Ohio?
Colombia?
Tigris?
Thames?
Amazon?
It's tough to remember the names of those Missouri Rivers.
 
Those F9 boys are BETTER than Sully - they kept power on the aircraft.

Gup

Chuck Norris was on the jumpseat, running the checklist..... When one of the engines tried to balk, he just gave it the ol' "stinkeye" out the window, and it fired up like a champ!
 
Those F9 boys are BETTER than Sully - they kept power on the aircraft.

Gup

What planet are you from? Sully is a national hero and has done more for this profession than any Southwest pilot ever has. The actions he took after both engines went dead were textbook and because of this 156 people are still alive.
 
Not really all that uncommon, just uncommon in the media when the plane lands uneventfully. Delta had two dual engine bird strikes the last few years... 1 in Rome on a 767-400 (pilots on that one got the ALPA superior airmanship award 2 years ago) and 1 in Nice on a 767-300. I've been shown pictures of a American 737 that trashed both engines with birds....


Yes, and most people do not even know about those. Both of those had enough gas on board for a very long flight. It added to it. Great job by the crews allowed the media to ignore it.

We get exposed for our failures, but never for our successes. Kind of like the CIA.
 
What planet are you from? Sully is a national hero and has done more for this profession than any Southwest pilot ever has. The actions he took after both engines went dead were textbook and because of this 156 people are still alive.

Not entirely true. There was a Southwest dude about 5 years that had a dual flap spindle failure at 400' in a -200. It was at night. In my book that one upped Sulley, not to take away from what he did, though.
 
What planet are you from? Sully is a national hero and has done more for this profession than any Southwest pilot ever has. The actions he took after both engines went dead were textbook and because of this 156 people are still alive.
Me thinks you need less coffee and more donuts as this was meant as a joke...
 

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