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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVfoXgPXAho
...yes, it is Air Zimbabwe, of course...Air Zimbabwe only functional plane suffered a birstrike on takeoff but continued to destination
http://avherald.com/h?article=4c7467ca&opt=0Incident: Zimbabwe B762 at Johannesburg on Apr 28th 2019, engine surges, engine recovered
http://avherald.com/h?article=4c7467ca&opt=0An Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767-200, registration Z-WPF performing flight UM-462 from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Harare (Zimbabwe)
with 98 passengers and 9 crew,
was climbing out of Johannesburg's runway 03L
when the crew declared Mayday Mayday Mayday and requested to stop climb at FL090 and return to Johannesburg.
The crew advised they had left hand engine (PW4056) surges.
While turning south on radar vectors the engine recovered,
the crew subsequently reported the fault had cleared and they had normal operation about 10 minutes later,
they wanted to
http://avherald.com/h?article=4c7467ca&opt=0Johannesburg's ATC had alerted emergency services, who had assumed their stand by positions,
had halted departures and sent arrivals into holds for the emergency return.
After the crew had reported the fault had cleared
ATC resumed operations at Johannesburg Airport and stood down emergency services.
Ground witnesses reported they saw the aircraft repepatedly banging and emitted streaks of flame,
while the aircraft was turning south the surges stopped.
The aircraft turned north again and climbed out of sight.
On Apr 29th 2019 the airline reported
the aircraft experienced a malfunction on one of the engines resulting in a brief tail pipe fire.
A deputy minister of Zimbabwe travelling as passenger on board of the aircraft
reported the aircraft received a bird strike
on departure
causing blowing sounds and sparks from the engine.