Shocking! An ‘eagle’ lodged in the nose cone of a packed passenger plane

The danger bird strikes pose to aircraft has been dramatically highlighted by this shocking image, which shows a bird – described as an ‘eagle’ – lodged in the nose cone of a passenger plane (circled). The bird crashed into the plane at El Fasher airport in Sudan on Saturday. The Boeing 737, belonging to Tarco […]

The danger bird strikes pose to aircraft has been dramatically highlighted by this shocking image, which shows a bird – described as an ‘eagle’ – lodged in the nose cone of a passenger plane (circled). The bird crashed into the plane at El Fasher airport in Sudan on Saturday. The Boeing 737, belonging to Tarco Air, had just flown in from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum when the incident took place. Fortunately none of the people on board were injured and the aircraft was able to land safely. 

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