SAN JOSE (KRON) -- No one was hurt when a United Airlines plane aborted its takeoff Monday morning from San Jose Mineta International Airport when the aircraft hit some birds.

"While on the runway our flight made contact with some seagulls prior to takeoff," United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski said.

Urbanski says United Flight 1220 was traveling at about 138 miles per hour when it hit the birds.  The pilot was able to slow and then stop the airplane.  The engines were then shut off as a precaution.

Although no one was hurt, the incident was "sufficient to cause the pilot to cancel the flight and go back to the terminal," airport spokesman David Vossbrink said. 

The aborted takeoff comes almost exactly a month after Danville Pilot Sully Sullenberger brought a U.S. Airways flight down safely in New York's Hudson River after hitting a flock of Canadian Geese.

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