As an instructor at the Brazilian Air Force Academy, Flavio Antonio Coimbra Mendonça was flying in formation when one of his colleagues experienced a bird strike to the leading edge of his aircraft’s right wing. It was a relatively minor incident — not nearly as dramatic as the U.S. Airways Flight 1549 landing on New […]
A Serene Air Boeing 737-800, registration AP-BNC performing flight ER-500 from Karachi to Islamabad (Pakistan), was on final approach to new Islamabad Airport’s runway 28L when a bird impacted and cracked the right hand windshield of the cockpit. The crew continued for a safe landing on runway 28L and taxied the aircraft to the apron. […]
