Tunis A320 at Tunis on Jul 3rd 2020, aircraft ends wild hunt
Last Update: July 4, 2020 / 08:40:16 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jul 3, 2020
Classification
Incident
Airline
Tunisair
Flight number
TU-542
Departure
Tunis, Tunisia
Destination
Munich, Germany
Aircraft Registration
TS-IMV
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
A post flight inspection revealed a dead pigeon was entangled in the nose gear, the pigeon presumably was trying to escape a bird of prey, which was ingested by the right hand engine (CFM56) causing some fan blade damage.
A replacement A320-200 registration TS-IMU positioned to Munich and performed the return flight TU-543 in the morning of the next day with a delay of 12:15 hours.
The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 16 hours after landing.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jul 3, 2020
Classification
Incident
Airline
Tunisair
Flight number
TU-542
Departure
Tunis, Tunisia
Destination
Munich, Germany
Aircraft Registration
TS-IMV
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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