Delta A330 Suffers Birdstrike after Takeoff from Beijing

[anon31652286]

A Delta Airlines Airbus A330-200 N855NW operating flight DAL188 from Beijing to Detroit has suffered a suspected bird strike in engine #2 after takeoff just a few hours ago.

##There is also a video of the aircraft on the website linked below
Credits: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20170428/1107644/

Screenshots of FlightRadar24 after the aircraft had made an emergency landing back in Beijing:



Screenshots were taken by me, please feel free to use them.

The aircraft taxied back to the gate safely. More information to come.

Full story:
https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en?sl=auto&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbeta.com%2Farticles%2F607581.htm

https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20170428/1107644/
Thanks to @Oleg_Shemyakov for finding the above webpage

[George]

That engine’s flame sparks just kills me 😱

[ThomasR]

I seen this on FR24, wondered what was going on.

[Captain_Patrick]

Omg I fly the A330 for delta va seeing this kinda Kills me since the a330 is one of my favorite airplanes

[Potato_pilot]

I saw a notification for this on FR24 thinking it was nothing. Perhaps I should’ve taken a closer look!

[anon31652286]

Sometimes I get so many 7700 notifications and nothing shows up 😐
This time it was exciting finding something!

[jdag2004]

That doesn’t look very good! Happy no one was hurt.

[Blizzard]

Well, I am very glad that everyone was promptly able to make it back to the airport without any extraordinary injuries at all!