{"id":261762,"date":"2025-08-04T21:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iberia-airbus-a321xlr-bird-strike-diversion\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:50:13","slug":"iberia-airbus-a321xlr-suffers-bird-strike-diverts-back-to-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=261762","title":{"rendered":"Iberia Airbus A321XLR Suffers Bird Strike, Diverts Back to Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a Paris-bound<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> A321XLR operating a flight for Spanish flag carrier Iberia was forced to return to its point of departure, in this case Madrid, after experiencing a bird strike while climbing out of the capital city. The aircraft landed safely back in Madrid, but photos have emerged showing considerable damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iberia Airbus A321XLR operating a flight from Madrid to Paris was forced to return to its departure airport after suffering a bird strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1778,396,476,612,4586,1630,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-iberia","category-madrid","category-madrid-barajas-airport","category-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261770,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261762\/revisions\/261770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}