AFL IL62 birdstrike @ Mumbai
 

This happened recently on an IL-62 carrying journalists to accompany Putins visit to India. Dont have an exact date.


http://bz.berlin1.de/aktuell/news/04...0/1_normal.jpg

story in german:

http://bz.berlin1.de/aktuell/news/041206/beule.html

One big bird. Pretty tough, too; no trail of remains. Fortunate it wasn't a metre higher.

...or, a bit bigger or possibly the aircraft going faster.

Case in point:
Ethiopian 727 noticed years ago in Khartoum, and the buzzard that struck the aeroplane, while said aeroplane was traveling at 340KIAS, at 4,000AGL went...
thru the radome
thru the forward pressure bulkhead
thru the FD door...

and ended up in the FC lounge area.

Oh yes, it also broke the co-pilots left leg along the way.

Nasty.:uhoh: :uhoh:

Daylight operations at this airport is something I have never seen.

Some more info in English at:

http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/2...4678_bird.html

For how much longer must we continue to have every Russian aircraft reported as belonging to Aeroflot ? They haven't had IL-62s in their fleet for years. Just look at the different livery/fleetname.

And we complain about journos ......