American Airways passengers feared for his or her lives Thursday, when a chicken flew into the engine of their outbound LaGuardia flight — forcing the airplane to shortly make an emergency landing on the metropolis’s different airport.
Flight 1722 took off from LGA simply after 7:20 p.m. and was scheduled to land at Charlotte Douglas Worldwide Airport in North Carolina lower than two hours later — however the airplane barely made it previous the coast of Lengthy Island earlier than it was diverted and compelled to land at JFK Worldwide Airport, in keeping with flight radar.
A chicken struck an engine of the Airbus A321 inflicting extreme injury that rendered the fitting propellant solely ineffective, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey stated.
The airplane — then powered solely by its secondary engine — landed safely with out incident at JFK, the Port Authority stated.
Surreal video, filmed by a passenger, reveals the second the chicken is sucked into the airplane’s engine.
The clip posted on X reveals the split-second the engine sucks up the poor feathered flyer, which seems to ignite and explode into flames on impression because the airplane tilts to the facet.
Passengers from the grounded flight instructed The Publish they noticed flames and thought the worst as they waited for his or her luggage at a baggage carousel in JFK’s Terminal 8.
“I thought I was gonna die,” Amy Stamper, of Tennessee, stated.
“I was scared. I thought I was gonna die. There were a couple of small explosions. And there was a fire,” Stamper stated in disbelief.
One other passenger, who requested to stay nameless, expressed equally dire emotions.
“I was right by the wing and I saw it. I saw two flames in the sky… I thought I was gonna die. I prayed. I thought I was gonna die for about 30 seconds,” the person stated.
Eric Halili, 43, was additionally left shaken by the flight gone incorrect.
“I think that was a very traumatic experience and what made it worse was that we had to wait over an hour to get our bags,” Halili griped.
“You just wanted the day to end and it just didn’t end.”
Halili, who was visiting New York for work, stated he “absolutely” feared for his life.
The daddy of two instructed The Publish that his children and spouse had been all he considered within the moments when he believed Flight 1722 might go down.
“That was the first thing that came into my mind — not being able to come home to them,” Halili stated somberly.
Halili, who was holding a bag of goodies from Junior’s Cheesecake, stated he was upset he received’t have the ability to convey the treats to his spouse Thursday evening.
Misleidy, 26, was on her method again house to Florida through Charlotte after spending her honeymoon in New York along with her freshly minted husband and ended up on the rerouted airplane by a stroke of destiny.
“I actually missed my first plane. This is the second one,” she instructed The Publish. “It’s what God had in store.”
“There were people who were scared. I was a little scared… It kind of felt like how a car would backfire. Rocking a little,” Misleidy stated. “At first I didn’t think much of it. But then I saw other people [reacting] around me and thought, ‘This might be bad’.”
The grateful passenger, who solely offered her first identify, stated the American Airways flight attendants did an excellent job calming down the distressed flyers.
No accidents had been reported on account of the incident, American Airways stated in a press release.
The Charlotte-bound flight is scheduled to re-depart on Friday morning and clients had been offered lodge lodging for the evening, in keeping with the airline.
The Federal Aviation Administration didn’t reply to The Publish’s request for remark by the point of publication.
