Qatar A330 Birdstrike at Istanbul Airport

A Qatar Airways Airbus A330 operating flight QR240 had an engine catch fire after a bird strike at Istanbul Airport. The plane made an emergency landing back in Istanbul as it was bound for Doha. All passengers and crew were safely evacuated.
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Holy!!! Emirates crashed, Easy jet incident and now this! I’m glad they got down safely, good job to the pilots, the cabin crew and A330! But seriously I thought the bird strike thing was solved.

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You will never be able to fully stop bird strikes

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Oh gosh this make flying scary!

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The only way to stop bird strikes is to get rid of birds.

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Lol not buy killing them though because they’re also living things.

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Or to implement something like this (sorry, I think visually).

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Don’t worry. Bird strikes are more rare than you think. They happen every once and awhile but isn’t serious enough to keep you from flying

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what’s that?

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