Ciampino Rome

What: Ryanair Boeing 737-800 flight FR4102 from Frankfurt
Where: approached Rome Ciampino Airport at 7.56am
When: Monday November 10 2008
Who: two crew members and eight of the 166 passengers received medical treatment
Why: After the both of the plane’s engine ingested a number of European starlings, smoke started pouring out of one of the engines and oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. As the plane was coming in to land, Passengers debarked via emergency exits and escape chutes. The landing gear sustained damage also. The pilots did not have the time or momentum to bypass a huge flock of birds encountered on landing.