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Old 20th Aug 2006, 10:31
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Pax captures bird strike on home video.

Not sure if posted in the correct forum, but a good show of inflight bird strike none the less caught by pax inflight.

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http://expressen.se/webb-tv/index.html?serialid=1014
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Nice shots!

As a former ground engineer I'm used to clean up mess like this...
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Some still pictures (from the video) can be seen here http://expressen.se/index.jsp?d=10&a=660530

Click on BILDSPECIAL under the picture.
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Bloody hell - an external threat to the aircraft. I'm surprised no one scrambled the fighters....
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Wouldn't this count as one of those electronic devices we passengers are told to switch off? Or were the birds flying very high?
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Looks high in this pic http://expressen.se/content/1/c6/66/05/47/c4bf678f.jpg

Here's a reference to a white stork birdstrike at 10000ft:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/CivilAviation/Sy...5/2-97/682.htm
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They look like White storks for sure, possibly on a migratory flight, luckily none went down the Tubes!

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This happened at 7000 ft.
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