Not what article is saying. Plane was ordered to a runway to avoid bird strikes. Landing gear failed to fully come down. Pilot did declare mayday 2 minutes before touching down, so seems to have had the opportunity to abort landing, or jettison fuel, which would not normally be full enough on landing to burn everyone.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Fair enough - bear in mind that I posted 6 hours ahead of you, and I was getting info from a BBC live feed, not the posted article.

Regardless, I think we can agree that this is a horrendous tragedy and hopefully a full and accurate explanation can be found.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do birds take out planes?

I remember watching modern marvels and they were showing jet engines being tested by firing frozen chickens into them and they didn't even blink.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know, just reporting what was being said.

If enough (large) birds in flight got into the engines maybe it causes a fire? I don't know though.

[–] Varcour@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bird strike took out the landing gear?

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know, just reporting what was being said.

If enough (large) birds in flight got into the engines maybe it causes a fire? I don't know though.

I saw a suggestion that the pilots may have been too distracted by other issues to put down the gear.

However, better to wait for a proper investigation.