'Bird-strike' jet diverted; AIRPORT.A PACKED jet was forced to divert di·vert v. di·vert·ed, di·vert·ing, di·verts v.tr. 1. To turn aside from a course or direction: Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 2. and land at Shannon Airport Shannon Airport (IATA: SNN, ICAO: EINN), or Aerfort na Sionna in Irish is an airport in Ireland. Approx 3.7 million passengers travelled through Shannon in 2006, making it the second busiest in Ireland by passenger movements. yesterday after it was involved in a suspected bird-strike. The hit occurred shortly after Bmi baby flight WW3902 took off from Ireland West Airport in Knock. It remained grounded at Shannon last night while a replacement aircraft ferried the 134 passengers to their destination. A spokesman for Shannon Airport said: "The flight, which was en route from Knock to Manchester, diverted to Shannon but the crew did not declare an emergency." |
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