Australia's Qantas flight returns to Perth airport after birdstrike
A birdstrike has forced a Qantas passenger plane return to Western Australia's Perth airport soon after take-off, the airline said on Friday.
A Qantas spokeswoman said the Melbourne-bound Airbus A330, which hit the bird just after 12:30 p.m.(local time) on Friday and landed "safe and sound" at Perth's domestic airport.
All passengers were transferred onto another flight.
Eye witnesses said they heard the birds hitting the plane.
"It was making a different noise to what other aircraft make and it sounded like a Russian tank," a local resident told Australia's Fairfax Radio.
"I looked up and as I looked up there was a big flame shooting out the back."
The Qantas spokeswoman denied there were any flames.
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SYDNEY, Sept. 23 (Xinhua)
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