Narinjara News, 24 February 2022

A Myanmar Airways flight that landed at Sittwe airport on Wednesday had a five-hour halt as somebird-feathers soaked blood were found in oneof its engines.

The aircraft is owned by Myanmar International Airlines (E-190) with aircraft no XY-ALU and flight number 8M- 406/7.

The plane, carrying 42 passengers along with five cabin crew, left Rangoon International Airport to Sittweand arrived here at around 8:30am.

According to Rakhine Daily News, soon after the plane landed in Sittwe, the pilot inspected itsengines and found some feathers withblood in its left unit.

The flight was suspended for five hours and finally it left  Sittwe airport by 2 pm after necessaryexaminations.

“The authority used the same aircraft for the return journey. For the safety reason, the passengers shouldhave asked to board in a differentplane to save their precious time. But we had to follow the directions as we could have lost thetickets otherwise,” said one passengeron social media commenting, “This is the situation going on in Burma.”

Earlier, on 3 November 2021 , an Air KBZ plane carrying 28 passengers from Rangoon collided with a bird whilelanding at Sittwe airport. It didnot turn into any disaster even though its right wing was slightly damaged.