Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-05-20
Passengers on a Hainan Airlines flight from Taiyuan in northern China's Shanxi to Xiamen in southern China's Fujian province experienced an unexpected delay to their journey on May 19 when their plane was grounded after hitting a bird.
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| The nose of the Hainan Airlines plane had a massive indent from the impact with a bird, May 16. (Internet photo) |
Passengers on a Hainan Airlines flight from Taiyuan in northern China's Shanxi to Xiamen in southern China's Fujian province experienced an unexpected delay to their journey on May 19 when their plane was grounded after hitting a bird.
One of the
passengers, surnamed Zhu, said the flight had gone as planned until reaching
its transit airport, Hefei Xinqiao International Airport, in eastern China's
Anhui province. He said that he then felt a sudden jolt that did not feel like
turbulence, adding that passengers feared the worst. After successfully
landing, the flight attendants asked the passengers to take all of their
belongings with them instead of simply letting them wait in the airport lounge
— a bizarre request considering that the airport was only a transit stop, Zhu
said.
The reason
became evident upon disembarking the plane, however, as the nose of the plane
was misshapen with blood all over it, Zhu said.
The
passengers were forced to wait in the lounge for hours, only to be told that
the flight was cancelled. The airline made the necessary arrangements to get
the passengers to their destinations, Zhu said, but after a ten-hour delay, the
airline refuses to compensate the passengers for the trouble.
The
situation could have been much worse, however. Birds hit airplanes every day
and are a source of millions of dollars in damage, while in the worst cases
they can cause the plane to crash.
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