Virgin at Karratha today?

[pilotdude09]

Seen the little Brazilian on the tarmac most of the day today, flew out after about 1pmish and had been there since 8am or there abouts.

Anyone know what was wrong, went for a drive round the airport as i had to drop something off and see the door was shut etc with no stairs.

Bit strange for it to sit there all day, cant find anything bout it so anyone know what happened?


Then i could have sworn on my life a Virgin 737-700/800 flew in at about 5pm, 100% my eyes were not playing tricks on me but it certainly did not look like the E-jets. Anyone know if a 737 did come up this way?

[solowflyer]

been there for 3 or so days now with RH engine cowles open

[Peter Fanelli]

Seen the little Brazilian on the tarmac most of the day today

Lucky you!

[blade root]

I heard it was FOD ingestion, in the form of a flock of birds/bird....

[Miles]

it swallowed a couple of birds (all for equality), the passengers were transfered onto the Qantas flight..........

[MotionPotion]

I was in Karratha last night and was told that an engine swallowed a bird/birds and it bent the fan blades. Lucky it happened just as it started it's takeoff roll!

[Capn Bloggs]

Like a red rag to a bull err bird?

[wirgin blew]

And the 737 went via Karratha to drop off an engineer before continuing to BME.

Good job by crew if my sources are correct.

[pilotdude09]

Cheers guys, bet it was cockatoo's as well as they are out and about at the moment.

Glad to know i wasn't seeing the 737 :P

[Miles]

if you want to identify the birds you could always ask the fly in - fly out prostitutes , they would know if it was a cockortwo........