Incredible moment when the vulture crashes into the plane’s cockpit, forcing the pilot to perform an emergency landing with the dead bird blocking his view
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This is the moment a vulture crashed into the cockpit of a plane, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing with the dead bird hanging in front of him.
Images taken during the plane’s flight showed the dead bird’s carcass, covered in blood and ruffled feathers, hanging by its feet from the top of the windshield.
The pilot’s hair was buffeted by the wind coming through a huge opening in the window.
The pilot, who flew the plane to Eirunepe, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, on December 5 with five passengers on board, was seen on the runway without further incident.
Photos taken after the plane landed showed a huge hole on the left side of the plane’s windshield.
Blood can be seen splattering across the glass and metal as one of the vulture’s wings holds it in place.
Inside, large pieces of glass can be seen on the dashboard.
The single-engine plane had reportedly taken off from Envira, also in Amazonas.
Footage taken on the plane during the flight showed the dead bird’s carcass, covered in blood and ruffled feathers, hanging by its feet from the top of the windshield.
Photos taken after the plane landed showed a huge hole on the left side of the plane’s windshield
Miraculously, none of the passengers were injured during the incident
None of the passengers were injured. The footage shows the visibly shaken pilot and co-pilot explaining the situation to the other people on board.
The pilot could be heard saying, “It was a close call! This is the fault of the landfill next to the airport, which attracts an absurd number of vultures to the area.’
According to local media, the birds that gather from the nearby landfill pose a constant risk to aircraft approaching the airport.
One passenger, who was not named, said: “We thought we weren’t going to get out alive. It was a miracle to land in the pilot’s face.”