Max Air suffers bird strike after flight, forced to return to Kano
Max Air’s Abuja bound aircraft had suffered a bird strike 10 minutes after take-off at the Aminu Kano International Airport, (MAKIA) Kano and was forced to return to Kano, according to sources.
A bird strike which is sometimes called birdstrike, bird ingestion, bird hit, or bird aircraft strike hazard is a collision between an airborne animal and a moving vehicle, usually an aircraft.
The Max Air B737 plane with registration number VM1645, which was slated for take-off at 1.30 pm had about a 30-minute delay.
The aircraft later took off around 2:00 pm with full passenger load.
A source close to the airline confirmed the incident, adding that the aircraft engine was hit by a bird during take-off, affecting some of the blades of the aircraft engine, forcing the captain of the aircraft to make an air-return, a standard practice in aviation to forestall an accident.
