"Justo some rumors I heard from Alitalia maintenance crew, wich had to replace the engines on the affected aircraft.
- As mentioned many blades were damaged on both engine.
- One engine had to be shut down at some point, the other one, was only able to give partial power
- crew started to dump fuel, but with both engines damaged they decided to come back immediately, with a 10 tons overweight landing.
- Due to the excess of braking required due to the higher weight/speeds but also as they were not able to use reverse most of the main landing gear tyres blew up... "
I am not sure about the "blown" tyres, it was the next day when I saw the aircraft on the ground, so I suppose it is possible all the "blown" tyres were replaced.
Just for info, the aircraft took off on runway 16R. This runway is about 3/4 of a mile from the sea.
I also understand that when the flight crew came off the A/C they were rather pale! ( but apparently the passengers did not seem too worried - I was not there so can not verify, people react to dangerous situations in different ways)
I have noted that some of the comments have been rather flippant!, but thanks to those of you who DO fly for a living have given the incident the perspective that it deserves.