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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Dan Grennan & Cathal Ryan

Emergency landing at Dublin Airport after flock of birds hit plane engine

An Aer Lingus flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a flock of birds became stuck in the engine that was taking off from Dublin Airport.

According to Dublin Live, it is understood that the captain told the passengers a "flock of pigeons" had hit the right side engine of the Airbus A330-300.

The plane had taken off from the airport's North runway at 12:12pm, however, it turned around a short time later and performed an emergency landing.

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