A Flydubai Boeing aircraft has suffered a bird strike while landing at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) this morning resulting in a flight delay of more than seven hours, a Flydubai spokesman said.
He said the flight carrying 113 passengers landed at the MRIA at 7.15 am and departed at 14.30 pm and that an engineer from the Jet airways had to be called in to MRIA to attend to the aircraft as engineers from the SriLankan airlines were not permitted to attend to repairs of Boeing aircraft.
“Srilankan airline engineers are permitted to attend only to airbuses,” the spokesman said.