FlyBe Embraer E175 has propeller engines damaged by birdstrike.

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FlyBe Embraer E175 has propeller engines damaged by birdstrike.

#1 Post by Capetonian » Sun Jan 03, 2016 8:35 pm

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Apart from the fact this image looks uncannily like a penis, the Daily Mail needs to get an aviation correspondent who knows what an aircraft looks like.
Dozens of British tourists have had their holiday plans disrupted after a Flybe plane was forced to make an emergency landing due to a bird strike this morning.
The bird struck a propeller – causing one of the engines to fail – while the Embraer E175 was taking off from Southampton Airport for Alicante, Spain.

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..... unless the propellers on this one are rotating so fast that they are invisible!!

They are getting better though. This article didn't mention 'skimming the rooftops of a crowded school/shopping centre/motorway' ....... didn't mention 'the heroic captain wrestling with the controls of the stricken Airbus Boeing Jumbo jet with its engines blazing as it plunged thousands of feet towards the raging ocean' ....... didn't mention 'hundreds of terrified passengers ......'

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Re: FlyBe Embraer E175 has propeller engines damaged by birdstrike.

#2 Post by MoreAviation » Sun Jan 03, 2016 8:53 pm

Cape that photo is an Embraer E175 of course. Those perfidious Brazilians produce some damned fine jet aircraft but I am only teasing, as I suspect the fool was thinking of the older prop driven Embraer types as you point out... :)

If the lazy news hound had looked he could have cadged a photo of a Flybe E175 although the Lot specimen you posted is great.

[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGUDbwoLGcU[/bbvideo]

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