CHENNAI: Three minutes after an Air Austral flight took off from Chennai international airport on December 14, 2013, its pilot returned to the ground. He had radioed air traffic control (ATC) for permission to land as the plane had hit birds during takeoff. Less than a month earlier on November 21, the captain of an approaching Air Arabia flight from Sharjah radioed the ATC controllers about a bird-strike. When the plane was inspected after landing, there was no damage but there were feathers and...
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