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Air New Zealand Bird Strike

What: Air New Zealand Boeing 737 en route from Dunedin to Wellington
Where: Dunedin
When: Jan 26, 2011 4: 50 pm
Who: 115 passengers
Why: 20 minutes after takeoff, the plane had a bird strike; a bird was ingested into an engine. The plane returned to make a safe landing

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