The crew of an Iberia Airbus A320-200, flight IB434 from Madrid Barajas,SP to Bilbao,SP (Spain) with 30 passengers, declared emergency and returned to Barajas Airport after a bird struck the right engine shortly after takeoff. The engine failed and had to be shut down. The landing about 30 minutes after liftoff was safe.

Iberia delayed another flight to Bilbao, IB440, to accomodate the passengers of IB434, who reached Bilbao with a delay of 2.5 hours.

A passenger reported, that the airplane had taken off in darkness, when a strong impact could be felt and a glow could be seen from the right engine, that lasted for about a minute.