AS9540 - Incident: Alaska B738 at Brownsville on May 19th 2023

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration N514AS performing flight AS-9540 from Brownsville,TX to Los Angeles,CA (USA), was climbing out of Brownsville's runway 13 when the left hand engine (CFM56) ingested a bird prompting the crew to stop the climb at about 2000 feet and return to Brownsville for a safe landing on runway 13 about 6 (!) minutes after departure.

A replacement Boeing 737-9 MAX registration N928AK reached Los Angeles with a delay of about 6:45 hours.

The occurrence aircraft received a number of bent fan blades and is still on the ground in Brownsville about 15 hours after landing back.