Federal Aviation Administration officials say there is no evidence that a bird strike is to blame for an engine failure that forced a Moscow-bound flight to make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.

The Delta jet was forced to dump fuel and turn around shortly after taking off from JFK, with the crew reporting engine problems and other pilots saying they had seen a flash coming from the Boeing 767.

FAA investigators found no evidence of “snarge,” which is the aviation term for the feathers and other debris left after a bird is sucked into a plane’s engine.

Passengers, including actor Leonardo DiCaprio, were put on a later evening flight to Moscow.

DiCaprio was traveling to St. Petersburg, Russia to attend a conference on protecting tigers.

In a statement issued through his publicist, he commended the pilot and flight crew for safely landing the plane.

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(Source: NY1)