Plane suffers bird strike at Rochester airport, Rochester NY


A commercial plane at Greater Rochester International Airport hit a bird during takeoff. Bird feathers and remains were found on the front upper left side of the plane. Emergency services are checking the plane and runway.
Audio|Source: Greater Rochester International Airport (KROC)
02:24
Transcript:
00:00
Director, 430, I was a bird strike a few minutes ago.
00:03
A couple of rivals, they don't see anything on the runway.
00:05
Just use caution for our bird fod.
00:07
Are you ready to go? Direction 430, copy the bird drama, and we are ready to go on 2-2.
00:12
Directive 430.
00:13
Roger, wind 3-20 at 9, guest one-nighter, runway 2-2, clear for take-off.
00:16
Direction 4-30, clear for take-off runway 2-2.
00:19
Drive 3.4.30, contact Partridge.
00:20
Good night. Traction 430, over to Partridge, you do same.
00:22
Towers. In-County-Five.
00:23
In-County 5.
00:24
Tower, county 5, focus 4.
00:27
Let me do up the runway section.
00:28
In-county 5.
00:29
Sir, Roger. Proceed down runway 4 across runway 028.
00:33
So thanks, runway 4 across 2A.
00:35
County 5. Do you have thousands of markets?
00:38
Yeah, so it should be around the intersection of 2-8.
00:41
Okay, I'll check the whole one.
00:42
Yeah, I haven't seen a couple of rivals in that one departure and they said they haven't seen it on the runway.
00:47
Okay, we'll take a look for two we can find.
00:49
Do you know what Casey wants to? Yep, it's the Endeavor, so the Delta Tail at Bravo 3.
00:55
Bravo 3, thank you, Nick.
00:57
Tower, we got 46-27-viso, runway 28.
01:00
Brickett 36-27, Rochester Tower, wind 330 at 8, gust 1-7, runway 28-28, cleared to wind.
01:07
Away 2-8, clear land, we got 46-20.
01:09
Ground, Endeavor 5231.31,
01:12
grab. Yeah, we did have a confirmed bird strike.
01:15
There's feathers all over and guts all over our upper left nose.
01:18
Endeavor 5231, Roger.
01:19
In County 5, you copy that.
01:21
Negative, I missed that.
01:22
The aircraft hit them, said the official bird strike and they have feathers and other stuff fall over the nose of the aircraft, upper left side.
01:29
Okay, we'll take a look at this and they go up there.
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Location mentioned:
Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC), 1200 Brooks Ave, Rochester, NY 14624
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