A bird strike involving an American Airlines jetliner disabled one of the plane's two engines shortly after takeoff from New York's LaGuardia airport, forcing the flight to turn around and land at JFK.
The Federal Aviation Administration says bird strikes are increasing, with 19,400 strikes at 713 airports across the US last year alone. Rarely do they cause so much damage that commercial jetliners are forced to make emergency landings.
We are grateful to our crew for their professionalism and apologize to our customers for the inconvenience this may have caused. There were 190 customers and six crew members on the flight.
This bird-strike incident recalled the so-called Miracle on the Hudson, which like Thursday's American Airlines flight involved a plane leaving LaGuardia for Charlotte.
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