A Southwest Airlines flight between Burbank and Sacramento suffered a chicken strike, with passengers reporting fireplace on the left hand engine.
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Southwest flight WN1707 departed Burbank at 0902 native time yesterday, and proceeded onwards to Sacramento as deliberate.
As per The Aviation Herald, because the plane was on closing method into Sacramento, it’s understood {that a} chicken was ingested into the left hand engine, which produced a bang after which smoke from the engine.
Despite this, WN1707 was capable of land safely, with out the necessity for an abortion of the method, however the plane was subsequently grounded in consequence.
WN1707 was operated by N770SA, one in all Southwest’s Boeing 737-700 plane within the fleet.
As per knowledge from Planespotters.net, N770SA is a 23.3 yr old plane on the time of writing that was delivered to the provider again in June 2000.
The airline has a fleet of 817 plane in whole, consisting of the next:
- 404 Boeing 737-700s.
- 207 Boeing 737-800s.
- 206 Boeing 737 MAX 8s.
Of the 817 plane within the fleet, 28 of them are at present parked up, with 789 of them in lively service on the time of publication.
At the time of writing additionally, N770SA continues to be grounded pending checks, upkeep and potential overhaul of the engine following the harm sustained by the chicken strike.
Earlier this week, N773SA, one other Boeing 737-700 within the Southwest fleet suffered a gasoline leak on method into Los Angeles. You can view that by clicking right here.
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