NEW YORK — A bird strike took out one of an American Airlines jet’s two engines after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport and forced the plane to turn around and land at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said Friday.

“Mayday mayday mayday American 1722 engine failure,” the pilot of the Charlotte, North Carolina-bound aircraft radioed to the control tower during Thursday’s emergency, according to a recording of air traffic control communications.

“It appears we have an engine failure but we’re still kind of working through to figure out what’s going on. We hit birds on the way out,” the pilot said, according to the recording archived by the aviation site LiveATC.net.

Airline officials said no one was injured in the incident involving the Airbus A321, which took off from LaGuardia at 7:43 p.m. with 190 passengers and six crew members on board.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the New York area’s major airports, said the pilot declared an emergency at 7:52 p.m.

— The Associated Press