a rumour is that this airframe is so damaged that it will be scrapped.
this may be the first time in australian aviation history that a bird strike saved an aircraft full of passengers.
if it had flown again ..... faaarrrkkkk.
problem for virgin is that they are scheduled to put over a hundred of the design into service.
look up ATR fatal accidents and just look at the number of ATR's that have crashed killing all on board. FFFFAAAARRRRKKKKK. and that is not just one dumbassed operator. those operators were from all over the world and all different cultures.
I will never fly on one ever.
If ever there was an aircraft that should be banned from australian skies it is the ATR.
ymmv.