FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Southwest Airways flight to Florida from Cuba was pressured to show again Sunday after it struck birds that brought on an engine to catch fireplace and fill the cabin with smoke, the airline stated. No accidents have been reported.
Southwest Airways flight 2923 departed José Martí Worldwide Airport in Havana en path to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport on Sunday afternoon. The plane “skilled fowl strikes to an engine and the plane’s nostril,” the airline stated in a press release.
A passenger instructed WSVN that the affect despatched fumes by the airplane and brought on emergency oxygen masks to deploy.
“It was like a burn scent, and it was hurting my face. My eyes received actual crimson, my chest began to burn,” Steven Rodriguez stated.
The pilots safely returned to Havana, the place the 147 passengers and 6 crew members evacuated the plane on slides, the airline stated.
The airline bused passengers and crew members to the airport terminal and put the passengers on a special flight to Fort Lauderdale, the airline stated.