A Tunisair Airbus A320-200, registration TS-IMV performing flight TU-542 from Tunis (Tunisia) to Munich (Germany) with 145 people on board, departed Tunis' runway 01 when the aircraft received a bird strike. In the absence of any abnormal indications the crew continued the flight and landed the aircraft safely in Munich about 100 minutes after departure.
A post flight inspection revealed a dead pigeon was entangled in the nose gear, the pigeon presumably was trying to escape a bird of prey, which was ingested by the right hand engine (CFM56) causing some fan blade damage.
A replacement A320-200 registration TS-IMU positioned to Munich and performed the return flight TU-543 in the morning of the next day with a delay of 12:15 hours.
The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 16 hours after landing.