British Airways flight with ‘fumes in cabin’ makes emergency landing after striking bird
A British Airways flight from Washington DC to London was forced to make an emergency landing because of a bird strike.
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A British Airways flight from Washington, DC, to London was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday because of a bird strike that left smoke pouring into the cabin.
Flight 216 took off from Dulles International Airport just after 5:30pm and diverted to Boston Logan International Airport about two hours later “after the crew reported a possible bird strike and fumes in the cabin,” the Federal Aviation Administration told CBS News.
Massachusetts Port Authority later confirmed to the network that a “bird was struck” and that the plane landed safely.
Engineers were expected to inspect the Boeing 777, a spokesperson for BA said.
There were 19,400 bird strikes reported at 713 US airports in 2023 alone, according to the FAA.
In December, a bird that was sucked into the engine of an American Airlines flight left passengers fearing for their lives when the plane was forced to land at JFK Airport — shortly after taking off from LaGuardia Airport.
PASSENGER STRIPS NAKED, POOS IN PLANE SEAT
A female passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight to Chicago allegedly stripped down naked and pooped on her seat as the plane landed, according to a report.
Police officers were called to Chicago’s Midway Airport on Saturday as flight 418 from Philadelphia arrived with one passenger shocking the cabin by taking off her clothes and emptying her bowels on a plane seat, NBC reported.
“Our teams are reaching out to those on-board to apologise for the situation and any delay to their travel planes,” Southwest said in a statement to the outlet.
“Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees, and we appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew,” the statement concluded.
It wasn’t clear what happened to the passenger, the New York Post reports.
The plane was taken out of service for cleaning, according to the report.
Last month, Southwest had a more serious mishap at Chicago Midway Airport, when a landing jet had a near-miss with a taxiing jet due possibly to a sun glare, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
— This article first appeared in the New York Post.
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