Earlier this week, a Jet2 flight between Tenerife and Glasgow suffered a chicken strike not lengthy after departure, prompting a return again to the island.
Incident: Jet2 Flight to Glasgow Suffers Bird Strike in Tenerife…
Jet2 flight LS126 is a routine scheduled flight between Tenerife South and Glasgow Airport, with the affected rotation being operated by G-JZHW.
As per knowledge from Planespotters.net, G-JZHW is a 6.9 yr old Boeing 737-800 that was delivered new to the service again in March 2017.
Of the 737-800 variant, the UK vacation service has 88 of them within the fleet, of which 77 are in energetic service and 11 are presently parked, internet hosting a mean fleet age of 14.1 years.
Jet2 flight LS126 departed Tenerife South at 1752 native time on January 3 and initially climbed out in direction of Glasgow.
Not lengthy after this departure, the plane hit birds, which compelled a return again to the island. During this return, the plane entered a sequence of holds to arrange itself for an emergency return, the place it landed safely with out fault by 1849 native time.
A spokesperson for Jet2 mentioned the next on this incident:
“Flight LS126 adopted customary process and returned to Tenerife South Airport shortly after take-off on Wednesday January 3, after the crew reported a minor fault indication.
“The aircraft landed safely, and customers were transferred onto a replacement aircraft and flown back to Glasgow Airport.”
G-JZHW remained grounded for the remainder of the night while repairs have been made, and departed the subsequent day to Manchester on a positioning flight, the place additional repairs shall be made to the Glasgow-bound flight.
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