An Iberia plane that left Madrid to Paris had to return emergency to Barajas airport after colliding with a bird shortly after taking off this Sunday, a maneuver that has not left injured. The aircraft suffered damage to the nose, as can be seen in the images disseminated by passengers on social networks.
Iberia has explained by email in response to El País that “within a few minutes of taking off the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, the IB579 flight to Paris suffered the impact of a large bird on the front of the aircraft and in one of the engines.” After the incident, “the commander requested authorization to return to the origin airport, where the aircraft landed safely.”
“The entire flight crew, pilots and cabin crew, acted with maximum professionalism to solve the situation and attend to the passage,” added the airline, which embarked the passengers on the route to Paris on another flight at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Flight Iberia 579 Madrid Paris, we had to bolver to Barajas to a landing of Emerrgence, iodine went well when we appreciated we collided a bird a bird
– Giancarlo Sandoval (@giancarlo_sndvl)
In social networks there are users who hung videos that attribute to that moment, such as this passenger whose clip accumulates more than two million views in X (Twitter) and that, in a sequence of several videos that he shared in this social network, was recorded both inside the plane and returning to the terminal on the transfers bus, focusing out the window the damage to the mouth of the plane.
