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Belle Air's aircraft lands in emergency at Venice-Tessera due to bird-strike

Venice, Italy - The flight, after the technical checks, continued to Tirane

A pilot of an A-320 aircraft of the Albanian carrier Belle Air, took off from Milan-Malpensa to Tirane, in Albania, has decided yesterday afternoon to make a safety landing after to have launched the mayday fearing the breakdown of the windscreen of the cockpit, damaged from the bird-strike while the airplane was in take-off phase. The security measures by "Marco Polo" (Venice's airport) were immediate,...

fra/pec - 1136599
Rome, Italy, 12/27/2011 13:16
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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