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American Airlines Plane makes Emergency landing after Bird Strike

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American Airlines Plane makes Emergency landing after Bird Strike

An American Airlines flight 2310 made an emergency landing at Seattle-Tacoma Airport on Wednesday after striking a flock of birds on take-off. The bords caused huge dent on the nose of the plane forcing it to make an emergency landing.


The pilot told air traffic controllers, according to LiveATC.net: 'Looks like we hit some birds after takeoff, we’re gonna need to go back and have the airplane looked at.'

The plane landed back at the airport a little less than an hour later, at 4:25pm. News crews who were on the scene took video of the Airbus A321 returning to the airport, with a large dent on the nose of the airplane. 

Sea-Tac officials tweeted that there 150 passengers on the plane, as well as six crew members, and that no one was injured. 

The nose cone contains important weather radar technology. Airport spokesman Perry Cooper told the Seattle Times that there was not enough damage to put anyone in danger.

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