Passengers on an AirAsia X flight say they saw sparks coming from an engine after a suspected bird strike led to their plane being grounded in Brisbane last night.
The incident occurred shortly after the Kuala Lumpur-bound flight took off from the Gold Coast about 10:20pm, with the plane flying for another hour before landing safely in Brisbane.
“Two bird remains were found on the runway,” the airline said in a statement.
Eric Lim, a passenger who posted images and video of the plane on social media, said the right engine was struck.
“Successive sparks ‘boom, boom, boom’ went off and some people were crying and calling out ‘oh my God, oh my God’,” Mr Lim posted on Facebook.
Others onboard the Airbus, which was carrying 345 passengers and 14 cabin crew, provided similar accounts on social media…
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