An Avianca A320 experiences bird strike, forced to divert course and land early. This incident caused one of the engine’s to fail, although current reports state that the flight landed safely.
A Quick Response Ensures Safe Landing
The Colombian flight from Popayan to Bogota, scheduled on November 10th 2025, was forced to divert course 20 minutes after departure due to experiencing a bird strike. The aircraft was an Avianca Airbus A320-200, registered HK-5320 performing flight AV-4892.
This flight only managed to reach 11000 feet into its climb before being forced to stop after the bird strike landed into the left hand engine. Due to this incident, the engine failed and the aircraft diverted to Cali (Colombia).
Thankfully, it managed to make a safe landing on runway 02, with Colombia’s Defence Intelligence Aviation Conference (DIACC) reporting:
This morning flight AV4892 with registration HK 5320, bound for Palmira, which experienced an engine failure due to a bird strike, landed without incident.”
More on Avianca
For more context, Avianca is the largest Colombian airline, founded in 1919. Its current fleet in use consists of the Airbus A320-200, the Airbus A320neo, and one Boeing 787-8, which was received in February 2024 from Norwegian Air Shuttle. Whilst the Airbus A319-100 is still in use, it will soon be retired, although a specific date has not yet be given since its original schedule to retire by the end of 2024.
More recently, the Avianca airline has featured more positively in news as it expanded its Business Class Américas back in September 2025, with new developments and expansions throughout the year (and hopefully with more to come).
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