MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - A Korean Air aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Brazil on Wednesday after hitting a vulture shortly after take-off, a spokesman for Brazil's INFRAERO said.
The Boeing 777-200, heading from Sao Paulo to Seoul with a stopover in Los Angeles, suffered turbine engine failure after it hit the bird, and requested an emergency landing.
According to a spokesman for the Sao Paulo airport services company, the emergency landing went smoothly. There were 138 people on board. No injuries have been reported.
The type of vulture encountered by the plane, an American black vulture, weighs 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs) and has a wingspan of 1.5 m (5 ft).
