Bird Hit Grounds Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 at Lahore Airport

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Bird Hit Grounds Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 at Lahore Airport

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Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER (aircraft registration TC-JJJ) is grounded at Lahore Airport after suffering bird hit. The aircraft landed safely on Lahore Airport Runway 36L at 3:29 AM as flight TK714 from Istanbul. The bird hit damaged aircraft wing area, according to some news channels.

Departure of Turkish Airlines Lahore to Istanbul flight TK715 is delayed and passengers have been shifted to Royal Swiss Lahore hotel at Lahore Airport. Passengers with residence in Lahore have returned to their homes. Flight TK715 was scheduled to depart from Lahore at 6:50 AM.

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Passengers of delayed flight TK715 also staged protest at Lahore Airport.

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Re: Bird Hit Grounds Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 at Lahore Airport

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Information on "The Aviation Herald".

http://avherald.com/h?article=4ee3f880&opt=0

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Photo of Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER (aircraft registration TC-JJJ) that arrived at Lahore Airport as flight TK714 from Istanbul with damaged wing slat.

The aircraft has been grounded at Lahore Airport for repairs.

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Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-300 aircraft registration TC-LOC is performing relief flight TK6881 from Lahore to Istanbul with flight TK715 passengers. The A330 departed from Lahore at 10:04 PM October 5.

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It had arrived in Lahore at 8:28 PM as relief flight TK6880 aircraft from Istanbul.

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Re: Bird Hit Grounds Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 at Lahore Airport

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Pakistan CAA needs to really wake up and deal with these birds at the airport. I understand this happens around the world, and its not something you can predict, but you need to plan for these things if you're an operating airfield, this costs the airline money and inevitably the CAA money as this is now becoming an regular occurrence with bird strikes all over the country.

Investment is needed in controlling or shooting the birds and there is a variety of technology on the market. How long can this continue god forbid, this is a disaster waiting to happen in Pak Aviation.
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Re: Bird Hit Grounds Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 at Lahore Airport

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The reasons are pretty obvious.
The housing societies are surrounding airports from all sides. There is no proper waste disposal in Pakistan. Adding to that, the garbage from home delivered food items (the white package)are also a big contributing factor as well.
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Some analysts have ruled out bird strike because the damaged area of the wing is not showing telltale signs of a bird strike i.e. blood stains and stuck feathers.

Slat rivets line stress fracture being considered as the reason.

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Re: Bird Hit Grounds Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 at Lahore Airport

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TC-JJJ just departed from Lahore as THY6618.
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Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER (aircraft registration TC-JJJ) arrived in Istanbul at 8:19 PM as ferry flight TK6618 completed in 6 hours & 9 minutes from Lahore from where it had departed at 4:10 PM.

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