by. reporter: and a few moments later would you like to declare an emergency? we are declaring an emergency. reporter: pilots safely guided 571 back to the westchester county airport and the terminal the passengers were put on another jetblue plane and flown to palm beach. there were 54 passengers and four crew members on board and nobody was hurt. it s not yet clear if the bird strike caused any structural damage to the embraer erj-190. latest example of the damage birds can and do cause to big jets. last week a delta flight at jfk had to return to the airport after birds got sucked into the engines there. and it was a bird strike that disabled the engines and forced captain sullenberger into his miracle landing on the hudson. in fact, it s more common than that. i ll say they re not uncommon. they do happen, but we deal with them on a routine basis and most of the time they are just an