LOUISIANA
Bird strike prompts jet to return to airport
KENNER, La. (AP)—A Delta Air Lines plane with 190 people aboard landed safely in New Orleans after striking birds shortly after takeoff.
A spokeswoman for Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport said Flight 1053 bound for Atlanta returned to the tarmac Monday morning. The plane had been bound for Atlanta.
A spokeswoman said 184 passengers and six crew members were on the Boeing 757 when it took off at 7:20 a. m. Birds hit the engine, and the captain decided to return to the airport as a precaution.
Passengers were rebooked on other flights.
In January, a US Airways plane that had taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York had to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River when both of its engines were disabled by bird strikes shortly after takeoff.
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