THY A321 at Istanbul and Budapest on AUg 18th 2014, bird strike

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration TC-JSC performing flight TK-1035 from Istanbul (Turkey) to Budapest (Hungary), departed from Istanbul's runway 35L but went through a flock of rather large birds and received a number of bird strikes. In the absence of any abnormal indications the crew decided to continue to Budapest, climbed the aircraft to FL360 and landed safely on Budapest's runway 31R about 2.5 hours later.

A post flight inspection revealed the aircraft received damage to the nose gear, nose gear landing light, leading edge and slats of right hand wing, left engine inlet leading edge, there were indications that both engines had ingested birds.

The aircraft was unable to perform the return flight and is still on the ground in Budapest about 16 hours after landing.

The return flight was cancelled.