A Boeing 737 from Royal Air Maroc suffered a major bird strike yesterday evening after lift off from EHAM. The Registration number is : CN-RMF. Mode-S: 020001, flight id.:RAM685R.
Just after lift off from EHAM the plane was hit by birds, the left engine caught fire. Because the aircraft was flying at quite a low altitude (800-900 feet), it caused a bit of a panic on the ground (and of course in the plane..). The flames were clearly visible, when the plane was flying over a major suburb of the city of Haarlem at an altitude of 800 feet. Remarkable. For those interested: I have enclosed a copy of a Radarbox .rbl recording ( one of the best features of this software, I think) I have made from the last 10 minutes of this flight. The aircraft did not transmit any ADS-B, so you only can watch it on the grid.
Regards, Frank
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Quote from: Frank on June 07, 2010, 09:45:21 AM
The flames were clearly visible, when the plane was flying over a major suburb of the city of Haarlem
I am not sure about that. Eye-witnesses and officials at EHAM said today that there was never been a fire on board of this a/c after the bird strike....
After the bird strike the cockpitcrew switched off the engine involved immediately.
When an engine ingests a bird it's very common to see flames being emitted.
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNpB-8_BSo
Some confusion about which engine it was, also, by the looks of it, with witnesses stating the right one was damaged, and photographs showing the left one damaged....
http://avherald.com/h?article=42c90189&opt=0
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