Multiple failures. American Airbus A321 hit 3 ducks on takeoff from Chicago. Real ATC

Flight crew was met at the gate by Illinois Conservation Dept, ticketed for hunting ducks out of season, and without a license.

“You’re the only customer” - Nice. Tower were all over it helping to get these guys back down👍

I was on this flight and must commend the incredible professionalism of the Captain and crew. It was a terrifying experience - especially with thunderstorms in the area at the time of the incident. Thank you American and the ground crew at O’Hare for keeping this soul alive!

The only thing they could have done better was to say they needed time to "get their ducks in a row" instead of "do some troubleshooting. Then this clip would bave been legendary. But seriously, no matter how many times I hear incidents like these, I never cease to be impressed with how professional everyone is and how well they handle it. Even when they lost one of the hydraulic systems the pilot on the radio didn't give a single hint of being worried or panicked. I know personally, I'd have been freaking out wondering if I should have just tried the landing or if anything else was going to fail before we got back around to the airport. But that guy? He sounded the exact same as he had the whole time.

I'm glad that the one guy had the sense to read them the ATIS instead of expecting them to tune and get it for themselves in the midst of all they were doing.

Of course they fixed the damage with duck tape.

You can hear the autopilot going "good luck with this, I'm outta here" in the background right around 8:00

RIP Huey, Dewey, and Louie

my condolences to the three ducks

The worst part was the dog laughing at them for missing the fourth one.

working as a team with complete professionalism on both ends. And courteous as well! This is how it is most of the time

Well of course the flight crew was fantastic, those controllers were all fantastic! Well done!

Tonight's in-flight meal is duck.,, You will never get a fresher meal than this!

I never thought of duck duck goose as a dangerous game, but here we are. Seriously, I am glad that nothing more serious happened.

ATC all over it. nice job

That was so smoothly coordinated. ATC had already conferred with the next one along, before the plane even reached their frequency. Hard to believed they managed to do all that - including the fly over - in such a short space of time. Again, no messing, ATC just kept them tight to the airport. You could tell that those poor pilots were starting to see more and more issues the longer it went on, the stress in their voices began to increase especially after the fly over. They knew there were checklists and did what they could but you can tell they’d also reached a point where they just wanted the thing on the ground before anything else failed on them. It’s one thing to have an incident like bird strike and know what’s causing your issues, but it’s another to see multiple vital instruments start failing one by one in front of you. I can imagine the unpredictability of that scenario being a pretty terrifying one to any pilot. You can be the best pilot in the world, but you still need your plane to work with you in order to get it down. Hope someone bought them a few beers later on.

These two pilots are exactly who Id want in an emergency! They’re calm, cool, collected even though they had a million things going on at once. These are the times that puts really those those paychecks! Great work!

I'll bet this incident really fowled everyone's flight plans for the evening?

One day sitting at the gate in SLC and my 757 flight that would take me to CVBG pulls in. The 757 had departed JFK and ran into a flock of seagulls, apparently the plane seemed normal after the gull encounter so they continued on to SLC. I stood in the gate area and had a great view of the 757 as it pulled in and after shut down the left engine had several bent back twisted fan blades and the darn thing ran normally for 4 hours, what a plane. BTW the mechanics had the hub of the fan section and replace 4 3-blade sets of fans. Two damaged sets and to opposite sets to balance, quick run up and minimal delay to CVG. Gotta love tough Boeing aircraft.

It's great to hear several different ATC's more than once. Great way to compare and contrast. Get a sense for what kind of communications style works ok, and what kind works great. I think the lady controller on APPROACH was the most clear, concise, no stumbling "Um Ah's", no non-requested repeated info, no non-approved wordage. I dig hearing great controllers, dispatchers, any kind of communicator.