Tag: Bird-Strike UK

Bird strikes cause engine fires in two separate events only days apart

Engine ingestions are rare events. Even rarer are engine ingestions causing fires. So two fire events in 3 days is remarkable __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Kallitta Air Boeing 747-4H6 (BCF), performing flight CKS330, landed at East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, UK. During the landing rollout there was something ingested by engine #3 (General Electric CF6,
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