Condor A321 Funchal 25/4/2024

[barry lloyd]

A Condor A321 suffered a birdstrike on No2 engine yesterday during take-off from Funchal en route to Leipzig. The aircraft continued the flight to Leipzig and apparently landed safely. In that situation, and given the known difficulties with operations from FNC, what is the opinion of those on here who are qualified to give one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJL6xpcOTg8&t=35905s&ab_channel=MadeiraAirportSpotting

The interesting part begins at 9:49

[BRUpax]

I'm going to take a wild guess that both engines continued to operate normally and that the crew had no indications to the contrary. Should they have later had to shut that engine down there were plenty of diversion options along their route.

[bean]

Porto Santo 31nm distant

[DIBO]

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[dixi188]

The bird strike occured around or just after V1, so the crew continued the take off.
An engine can eat quite a big bird without damage, in fact certified to do so. The momentary disruption of airflow through the compressor will cause the surge/stall, but then the engine will recover and operate normally.
If the crew saw no abnormal indications then continue the flight. Tech log entry after landing, "Suspected bird strike on take off, no. 2 engine". Maintenance will do an inspection.

[thnarg]

Agree with the above. If everything still works it makes sense to complete the flight and arrive at normal landing mass. Also, not uncommon to arrive back from places like Banjul with engines and gear resembling the bins at Nando’s.

[Denti]

Check engine indications, everything normal and plenty diversion options enroute, continue. One could additionally send an ACARS to maintenance and ask if they have any other information, after all they get live and routine updates on engine health throughout each flight and probably know more about engine health than the crew anyway.

[Doors to Automatic]

Worth noting that there are also a lot of calm days at FNC so a return would not be an issue.