(Reuters) – A charter flight carrying the Utah Jazz to Memphis on Tuesday was forced to return to Salt Lake City airport after an engine was damaged when the plane struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff, according to multiple reports.
“Fortunately the plane landed safely,” a Jazz representative said, according to the USA Today. “Everybody is shaken, but they’re okay.”
The Jazz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The team is scheduled to play the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night.
“GOD is good,” forward Royce O’Neale wrote alongside two praying hand emojis on Twitter.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Stephen Coates)
