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Old 26th June 2012 | 10:55
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Mach E Avelli
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From: All at sea
Only last week one of our aircraft had a hawk or some similar big bird take out a windscreen at 19000 feet. Shattered it to the point that the crew thought it prudent to depressurize immediately.
Admittedly it was over mountains in PNG so the bird was only about 4500ft agl.
Maybe birds attack aircraft because they become aggressive when hypoxic?
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