Posted on 04/19/2012 9:50:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NEW YORK (CBS) — A Delta flight, bound for Los Angeles, made an emergency landing Thursday at John F. Kennedy International Airport because of a bird strike.
The FAA said Delta Flight 1063, a Boeing 757, declared an emergency for an engine related problem shortly after takeoff at 3:10 p.m.
“It was absolutely terrifying,” Grant Cardone, author and Huffington Post contributor, told KNX 1070.
“I picked up my iPad and for some odd reason, started videoing the takeoff of this flight. The next thing I see come across the iPad screen is a flock of black birds hit the engine. It sounded like cars going through the engine of the plane. And maybe four or five seconds later . . . the plane just goes up and down like we hit really really bad weather, then we smelled fire and I thought it was coming through the plane.” (To watch Cardone’s video of the incident, click here.)
Officials said the cabin filled with smoke, and the pilot turned around immediately.
The pilot could be heard in an air traffic control recording, “Delta 1063 has had an engine failure on the right engine declaring an emergency due to a bird strike.”
The air traffic control tower responded, “Delta 1063 we have declared an emergency engine failure on the right engine.”
The pilot then informed air traffic control that the plane was carrying 179 people — 172 passengers and 7 crew members.
Delta said the flight landed at JFK without incident. No injuries were reported.
When Cardone walked off the plane he filmed another video, saying, “…hit the right engine, the plane shook — I thought we were coming down. I choked on the video and closed it and went to grab my phone to see if I had reception because I was literally calling my wife to say, ‘Hey…this may be my last flight,’ I was that scared.”
The airline was working on getting the passengers on another flight.
“The Delta pilots did an unbelievable job, everybody was very calm, the passengers were great,” Cardone said.
Correction: The video mentions that the plane has three engines when it, in fact, has two.
Leave it to a Huffington Post contributor to think he is something special and those rules about all electronics being off during takeoff and landing don't apply to him. Dumbass.
The flight landed without incident nor injury because the aircraft designers anticipate this kind of incident, and pilots are trained to deal with it. Not exactly commonplace, but not unexpected either.
After watching the movie, "Knowing", with the scene of an airliner coming down in front of the lead character and it's horrific special-effects, I wonder what I would do in such circumstances if heading down. Don't we all?
Remember Flight 93! Our civilian best...LET'S ROLL!
I’d like to know how smoke from the fire in the engine got into the cabin. I thought the cabin was pressurized at around 6,000 feet and would push out any smoke from outside. They need some silicone or something to fill in the cracks.
Bird strike on a 757 at Manchester, UK airport in 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhZwsYtNDE
I saw that film. The plane crash scene was awesome! It was so unexpected, loud, realistic, and dramatic. I loved that movie!
It gets in because the air they pressurize the cabin with comes from the engines.
I don’t recall exactly where or how, but obviously ahead of where the fuel is normally injected.
I am sure an A&P Mechanic will be along shortly to clarify. (And make me look stupid..LOL)
You could have stopped there and it would always apply.
You are correct, and I am not a AP mechanic. But if you look in google, most pressurization systems bleed air out of the compressor stage in the engine, cool it, then inject it into the cabin. The engines don’t even notice it. Well, maybe some software somewhere that controls the fuel injection system notices....
The ventilation for the cabin comes from one of the compressior stages in the engines.
The smoke came from there.
Like the "let's roll" guy, right?
Aircraft use bleed air from the compressors on the jet turbines to pressurize the aircraft and ventilate the cabin. Damage to the bleed air system would (and does) cause that.
I used to be a jet mechanic in a former life, and you did fine explaining it. I understand why that would confuse the poster...it isn’t something that is apparent.
Just curious, what do you mean? It sounds as if you side with the guy using the device during take off/landing?
In that case they were already above the minimum safe altitude, so using electronics was allowed. No, by the rules they shouldn't have set their phones to transmit. However, when you're being hijacked I think you can cut the passengers some slack so they can communicate their situation to the ground etc. The jerk in this case apparently just decided to record takeoff 'cause he felt like it and you know, the rules don't apply to liberals. (nor does common sense for that matter)
Bird strike? Was there a picket line?
He took the vid with an iPad
Many thanks for explaining that!
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