These pix have it all - falling bodies, flying feathers, bloodsmeared fuselage. All captured by Michael Humpherson of Pumaknight Images who was photographing aircraft at Heathrow when a South African Airways Airbus A340 had this messy encounter with a flock of our avian friends. Nobody hurt (well, depends on your personal philosophy I suppose.)
See more of my birdstrike posts using the tag cloud on the right, more of Michael's pix here, and for a more in-depth review, I recently wrote this feature in Flight International.
See more of my birdstrike posts using the tag cloud on the right, more of Michael's pix here, and for a more in-depth review, I recently wrote this feature in Flight International.
on May 5, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply
I had a similar experience at Washington National last year. A big flock of gulls met an RJ on the approach and didn't all make it out the other side intact.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/boyspot/Aircraft/Washington%20National/March%202008/QB5Y1014.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/boyspot/Aircraft/Washington%20National/March%202008/QB5Y1015.jpg