Crash landing of a bird control team at Palm Beach International Airport

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida. A late-morning JetBlue flight from Palm Beach International Airport bound for New York’s LaGuardia Airport was forced to turn around minutes after takeoff and make an emergency landing on Sunday.

The aircraft returned safely without incident or injury. But for the passengers, it was a long day on the road.

As of 7:00 pm Sunday, Flight 62 to LaGuardia was listed as “delayed.”

A JetBlue employee said the plane took off about seven and a half hours after its first takeoff and emergency landing.

The bird strike came two days after a near-tragedy at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, a close collision between a Delta jet accelerating for takeoff and an American Airlines jet crossing the same runway.

The Delta aircraft was able to stop and avoid the collision.

“It was like a split second of panic … which led to such an audible reaction in the plane,” said passenger Brian Healy. has stopped”.

Ironically, the PBI bird strike happened on the 14th anniversary of the “Miracle on the Hudson” when a US Airways plane had to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River after Canada geese got caught in the plane’s engine.

Pilot Sally Sullenberger landed the plane safely in the river, leading to a water rescue in which all 155 passengers on the plane’s wings were rescued.

By comparison, Sunday’s emergency landing at the PBIA was an inconvenience.

An email from JetBlue Corporation read: “Our team is working on accommodating customers on later flights,” says an email from JetBlue Corporation, indicating that they were trying to get passengers to New York as quickly as possible.

But Sunday was a tough day for JetBlue passengers to New York, as two flights to LaGuardia and one to JFK were delayed, although only the first LaGuardia delay was due to a bird strike.