Emergency Landing

Yup... it was a true one. The fire brigade was waiting. I woke up at 4:30 am to catch my 6:30 am flight from Dublin to Edinburgh (say it in Scottish... Edinburrrrrrrrah). We took off, made several very abrupt right hand turns and 10 minutes later the captain comes on and says, "we are having some problems and will be landing in Dublin shortly). We hit the runway with a thump - and are immediately chased down the tarmac by 6 fire engines and myriad support vehicles. It turns out some birds were out for a lovely morning stroll and decided to make friends with our RyanAir flight. About an hour later amidst the blood and feathers - we were airborn again and arrived in Edinburgh.