A Northwest Airlines Airbus A320-200, flight NW-1546 from Raleigh Durham,NC to Minneapolis,MN (USA) with 153 people on board, struck a bird during the takeoff roll on runway 23R. The crew reported after liftoff that they heard a pretty good bang at the right hand side after spotting some birds during the roll and they'd wanted to return to the airport. The airplane levelled off at 3000 feet. About 10 minutes after departure the crew reported, that they just had lost their number 1 (left hand) engine. The crew performed a safe visual approach and landing on runway 23R about 20 minutes after departure. [source:
www.avherald.com/h?article=41dfc223]
Local News coverage:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5759151/Local News video:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/5760862/This is my first audio post. Feedback is appreciated.
The attached clip is from LiveATC archive's KRDU2 feed on 8/9/2009 1230 GMT. I've edited relavant portions down to a 3 minute clip. Windows Movie Maker and Switch Sound File Converter were used. I used variable bit encoding (8 to 64 Kbps) to reduce the file size from 3MB to 500KB. If this is too poor let me know. The static on the feed is mostly just the feed. Scanner is 9 miles from the tower with an indoor antenna. Will work to improve this someday.
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