07-08-2010, 01:24 AM
I just had a bird strike a few minutes ago. it It was the first flight for my newly created airline. It was a brand new 737. i took off from LAX
heading to DEN, but about 500 ft off the ground, the fire warning came on. i switched to outside view and saw the right engine on fire. A
few seconds later the copilot said "the engine flamed out!" I tried to control the plane maually but it was too much work between that and
finding a place to land and pushing buttons and stuff, so i had to use the autopilot. I had to return to LA so I was vectored towards the
mountains and had to climb to 9000 verryyy slowly... right as i reached 8800 i was told to descend back down to 2200 ft. The ils approach
was ok except for the plane was crabbing the whole time and 2 AI planes passed me cause i had to go slow. I went in for a manual
landing and found myself on the left side of the runway so i had to correct but because of that i blew a tire on touchdown, too
. I also
had to ignore a go-around and just land. I was #4 for lading but everyone in front of me went around and nobody was on the runway when
i landed but me so i don't get why i was told to go around anyway. Ironically, the passengers opinion from all this was a PERFECT flight!!!
So, I had a plane with landing gear damage and a destroyed engine so I just sold it and made money off of a wreck. At least my airline
can try to get in the air for the first time again...
heading to DEN, but about 500 ft off the ground, the fire warning came on. i switched to outside view and saw the right engine on fire. A
few seconds later the copilot said "the engine flamed out!" I tried to control the plane maually but it was too much work between that and
finding a place to land and pushing buttons and stuff, so i had to use the autopilot. I had to return to LA so I was vectored towards the
mountains and had to climb to 9000 verryyy slowly... right as i reached 8800 i was told to descend back down to 2200 ft. The ils approach
was ok except for the plane was crabbing the whole time and 2 AI planes passed me cause i had to go slow. I went in for a manual
landing and found myself on the left side of the runway so i had to correct but because of that i blew a tire on touchdown, too

had to ignore a go-around and just land. I was #4 for lading but everyone in front of me went around and nobody was on the runway when
i landed but me so i don't get why i was told to go around anyway. Ironically, the passengers opinion from all this was a PERFECT flight!!!
So, I had a plane with landing gear damage and a destroyed engine so I just sold it and made money off of a wreck. At least my airline
can try to get in the air for the first time again...