EMB175 flight attendant's perspective of an engine failure at takeoff caused by the ingestion of a s...

Narrative:

After taking off; the left side of the plane started vibrating very loud. Then everyone heard a banging sound along with a smoky odor afterwards. My first thought was a decompression was coming; so myself and [the other flight attendant] called pilots immediately and they heard noise also and said they will call us right back. So they called us and said we were going to go back because they were getting indicators in the flight deck something was wrong with left engine. So captain made PA to inform the passengers of the situation. We landed within 10 minutes. Upon landing we had passengers deplane and maintenance came on board. They inspected the aircraft and found out that a seagull flew into the engine and damaged the left engine severely and flight was canceled.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: EMB175 Flight Attendant's perspective of an engine failure at takeoff caused by the ingestion of a seagull. Flight returns safely to the departure airport.

Narrative: After taking off; the left side of the plane started vibrating very loud. Then everyone heard a banging sound along with a smoky odor afterwards. My first thought was a decompression was coming; so myself and [the other Flight Attendant] called pilots immediately and they heard noise also and said they will call us right back. So they called us and said we were going to go back because they were getting indicators in the flight deck something was wrong with left engine. So Captain made PA to inform the passengers of the situation. We landed within 10 minutes. Upon landing we had passengers deplane and Maintenance came on board. They inspected the aircraft and found out that a seagull flew into the engine and damaged the left engine severely and flight was canceled.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1058393
Time
Date	201212
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Takeoff Initial Climb
Component
Aircraft Component	Turbine Engine
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty)
Qualification	Flight Attendant Current
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal

EMB175 flight attendant's perspective of an engine failure at takeoff caused by the ingestion of a seagull. Flight returns safely to the departure airport.