"The incident was similar to one involving an American Airlines plane at O'Hare on Sept. 16. That plane also made an emergency landing after the pilots were unable to avoid a flock of birds, six of which were sucked into the fan blades, causing an engine to catch fire."
In this instance 6 birds were sucked into the engine surely there was a massive chance that the birds could have been ingested by the engines resulting in a simultaneous engine failure no?
The captain on this flight was my friend's Dad. He showed me the pictures the next day of the engine, what a mess it made of the fan blades!