Watch A Bird Strike Knock The Front Window Out Of A Small Plane On Landing Approach – Pilot Handles It Like Boss


Watch A Bird Strike Knock The Front Window Out Of A Small Plane On Landing Approach – Pilot Handles It Like Boss

I am not afraid of flying but I am afraid of flying in small planes. Look, I know this is an illogical fear and something that I should just get over and handle but I can’t. I don’t know what it is but something about the whole never having enough fuel, altitude, or engines doesn’t seem to line up when I am looking at a little single engine plane that holds like three or four people. There are millions of folks that fly for pleasure (and I know some of them who have been doing it for decades, incident free) but to this point in my life I have not let myself become one of them. This video isn’t helping my cause, either.

What you are about to watch is something that happens with frequency as I understand it. This is an airplane striking a bird. The difference here is that the bird busts out the windshield in front of the pilot and appears to take some of the fuselage with it. This happened as the pilot was about four minutes form landing his plane at an airport and was talking to the tower on his radio. The guy does exactly what he has to do, sets the plane down and lets out a healthy sigh when he comes to a stop by the hanger where his plane gets parked. The nightmare scenario here is that the bird comes through and knocks the guy out cold while the plane is coming in over what looks to be a pretty densely populated area.

The good news is that the bird may have died on impact, but the guy flying this plane kept his head and landed the sucker like nothing was wrong. His reaction is pretty telling at the end, though.


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