Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "Virgin Australia flight makes emergency landing in New Zealand after possible bird strike" video.

  1. Normally if a bird strike occurs during take-off you immediately return to the airport you took off from to land. The exception would be if you are too heavy with fuel to land on the runway and must circle around to dump fuel. It looks like the 737 circled around to dump fuel but landed at Invercargill instead landing at Queenstown. Invercargill must have had a longer runway and better emergency services than Queenstown.
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  2. Migratory bird species that fly at night do so to avoid predatory birds who hunt during the day. The migratory birds also fly at night to use stars and the moon to navigate instead of landmarks on the ground.
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  3. In commercial jet engines a compressor stall can be done by pulling the nose up to quickly disrupting the air flow or an extreme nose yaw angle away from the incoming air disrupting the air flow. The constant jet engine compressor stalls, the flashing fire out the back, is a bird strike damage to the compressor blades since the jet seem to be flying relatively level. In military jets there are adjustable inlet panels to maintain constant air flow no matter what angle you are flying, which commercial jets don’t have.
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