A bird had struck the engine in a rare flight that landed in Mattala

A bird had struck the engine in a  rare flight that landed in Mattala 

A incident had been reported from the Mattala International airport when a bird had struck the engine of the plane that was to land. Hence the passengers had been dropped and the flight had terminated.

This had happened on the 06th instant yesterday at around 7.15 am to a plane belonging to Fly Dubai

which was flying from Katunayake to Dubai.

After the incident the 43 passengers and the crew of 07 persons had been asked to get off.Later another plane from the same airline had come and taken the passengers to their destination.The aircraft in question had been retained in the Mattala airport premises to be inspected.