B737-300
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 146
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal
Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; General Declared Emergency
Environment - Non Weather Related
Hit birds [on takeoff] at roughly 1;000 FT as we were being handed off to Departure. Had stick shaker due to AOA vane being sheared off. Declared an emergency and landed back to the departure airport.
A B737-300 AOA vane was sheared off causing the stick shaker to activate after it struck birds during takeoff at 1;000 FT. An emergency was declared and the flight returned to landed at the departure airport.