This {photograph} exhibits the TW216 flight after it landed at Incheon Airport on Wednesday, minutes after a hen hit one among its engines. (Yonhap)
A T’way flight was hit by a hen throughout touchdown late Wednesday, however the pilots managed to land the plane safely in Incheon, the airline stated.
The TW216 flight, certain for Incheon from Narita International Airport in Tokyo, had been touching down on a runway on the Incheon International Airport round 9:28 p.m., when a hen was sucked into one among its engines. The pilots aborted the touchdown briefly, however had been capable of land the aircraft safely some 13 minutes later, T’way Air stated.
Small sparks had been noticed when the engine was struck, and firefighters had been dispatched to the runway when airport authorities acquired reviews of a fireplace. Officials discovered that no fireplace really broke out, and not one of the 122 passengers onboard sustained any accidents.
A T’Way official stated that the airline will conduct a radical inspection of the plane.
There had been a complete of 500 hen strikes in South Korea from 2019 to October of final yr, in line with the info from Korea Airports Corporation and the International Airport, compiled by Rep. Heo Jong-sik of the primary opposition Democratic Party. In six of the circumstances, the flight was compelled to divert again to its airport of origin.
