The Associated Press
See the Kiwis do it as well, seems the birds are in revolt with
you guys taking over their airspace.
Forced landing after bird hits plane
From correspondents in Wellington, New Zealand
October 9, 2003
AN Air New Zealand airplane with 83 passengers and seven crew on board made an emergency landing today after hitting a bird, officials said. Nobody was injured.
The Auckland-bound Boeing 737-300 was leaving the city of Dunedin on South Island "when it appears to have taken a magpie in one engine", said airline spokesman Mike Tod.
The pilot closed down the engine and circled Dunedin before landing without incident shortly after 11am local time, he said.
Airline engineers will assess the damage to the jet engine later today and make repairs, the spokesman said.
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