A World Airways McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on behalf of Allied Air, registration N380WA performing freight flight AJK-2617 from Ostend (Belgium) to Lagos (Nigeria), ingested a sea gull into one of its engines on takeoff from Ostend requiring the shut down of that engine. The crew decided to dump fuel over the North Sea and returned to Ostend Airport for a safe landing about 30 minutes after liftoff.