Firefly:
The crew observed a murmuration on short final and elected to GoAround (follow Boeing and Company SOPs at the time) - during this maneuver the aircraft sustained multiple bird strikes and the engines suffered major loss of thrust and the GoAround was abandoned for a crash landing on the runway.
Sorry, did I forget the /sarc tag?
Spekesoftly:
Gatwick 1950s
East Midlands, Newcastle, Luton and Liverpool 1960s
Edinburgh 1970s
London City 1980s
Sheffield City 1997 (Closed 2008)
Manchester 2001
Yep - and you do much the same with new aircraft or new inventions.
As I said previously, going backwards....
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