Florida flight returns to Cuba after birds trigger engine hearth

A Southwest Airways flight to Florida from Cuba was compelled to show again Sunday after it struck birds that triggered an engine to catch hearth and fill the cabin with smoke, the airline mentioned. No accidents have been reported.

Southwest Airways flight 2923 departed José Martí worldwide Airport in Havana en path to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport on Sunday afternoon. The plane “skilled chook strikes to an engine and the plane’s nostril,” the airline mentioned in an announcement.

A passenger advised WSVN that the affect despatched fumes by means of the aeroplane and triggered emergency oxygen masks to deploy.

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“It was like a burn odor, and it was hurting my face. My eyes acquired actual crimson, my chest began to burn,” Steven Rodriguez mentioned.

The pilots safely returned to Havana, the place the 147 passengers and 6 crew members evacuated the plane on slides, the airline mentioned.

The airline bused passengers and crew members to the airport terminal and put the passengers on a special flight to Fort Lauderdale, the airline mentioned.

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