Flight 1722 safely landed minutes after a chicken flew into one of many engines throughout takeoff.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An American Airlines flight to Charlotte needed to make an emergency touchdown shortly after takeoff Thursday evening when it struck a chicken, the corporate mentioned.
Flight 1722 was pressured to land simply minutes after leaving LaGuardia Airport in New York when a chicken flew into the engine. An American spokesperson mentioned not one of the 190 passengers or six crew members had been damage through the incident and the aircraft landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport with out additional bother.
“We are grateful to our crew for his or her professionalism and apologize to our clients for the inconvenience this will likely have precipitated,” the airline mentioned in a press release to WCNC Charlotte.
All passengers had been supplied accommodations for the evening and American rescheduled the flight for Friday morning.
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