How Serious Are Bird Strikes
On September 28, 2012 there was a plane crash, the airline: Sita Air and type of aircraft: Dornier Do-228, registration 9N-AHA.
What I got to learn from
reading about this plane crash was that the pilots reported a bird strike
following an engine failure. My initial thought of the engine failure was it happen due to a bird going inside an engine. The plane was close to the
airport but it didn't made it safely down. All people on board perished. There were 19 of them and emergency services took 40 minutes to extinguish the
fire. The bodies
of the occupants were charred beyond recognition.
As I read more info about the
crash, the Nepal Airline Operators
Association reported a preliminary investigation result that a bird collided
with the right hand engine at about 50 feet above ground (about
4440 feet MSL) causing some part to separate from the engine and the part impacted
the vertical tail and disabled the rudder. This made the aircraft
uncontrollable.
This is devastating, if that part
that separated from the engine wouldn't have hit the vertical tail, the pilot's
could of surf to the airport with the remaining left engine. They say the
disasters don't just happen, they are a chain of events... Why didn't some chains
unlock.
