Turkish Airlines Flight Bird Strike
A Turkish Airlines flight departing from Colombo airport experienced a bird strike and had to make an emergency landing. The incident involved the aircraft circling to burn fuel before returning to Colombo's Bandaranaike International Airport.
Nothing says "we've got this under control" like a plane doing donuts over the airport burning fuel while everyone on Twitter simultaneously becomes an aviation expert, each one tweeting like they just watched a 30-second YouTube video on hydraulics. A bird basically said "I'm gonna mess with an international airline today" and won—absolute power move by a creature that weighs less than a sandwich.
#Turky @TurkishAirlines flight after take off Colombo airport #Srilanka is circulating around airport to land back ? Possible bird hit - Reports https://t.co/3MfGmktDSW
A @TurkishAirlines flight from Colombo has experienced a bird strike and is now burning fuel off Negombo in order to return to Colombo @BIA_SriLanka #lka #SriLanka #SLnews #Turkiye #TurkishAirlines https://t.co/w68H83spGR
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