A220 Bird strike
 

Yes, A220!

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1ba2b78abc.jpg


Aculiecinieka foto: 'airBaltic' lidma??na saskrienas ar putniem - Delfi

Well, sort of. If you look closely, it still says "Bombardier CS300" on the side of the nose ....

As does the Type Certificate and indeed everything related to airworthiness. Just calling it an Airbus doesn't make it one. :O

Calling it the A220 was with a bit of sarcasm.

Aside from that, isnt this the first one?

Possibly, seems to have performed adequately under the circumstances.

Wait, looking closer at this image from the article, nothing makes sense....all the separations in the fuselage, and this engine is way out of place....there is a hell of a lot of fuselage between the door and the wing...notice where "Baltic" is on the fuselage vs the image......WTF!

Hell, at this point, I am not even certain they had a bird strike.....unless it crumple the fuselage back about 10 seats!

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3692a9b6e4.jpg

an impressive profile, especially the tail section....entire top is level, an the apu extends almost entirely beyond the vertical structure.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1fc022b07f.jpg

I've never understood why Airbus didn't just call the CS100 the A100 and the CS300 the .... oh, hang on.

probably a bit of telephoto lens shortening too. There's a couple of images online that purport to show "the worlds scariest bridge" and it makes it look like a helter-skelter, but it's all due to the telephoto effect.

Looks like 4 individual bird strikes to me.
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I can only see 3 on the nose near the vertical CL

How about just one large bird bounced off radome hit again,split by the wipers and the third just blood trail ?

I think if you count windows, you will see that after the "c" of "Baltic" there is one more window, then a door: exactly the same in both 3/4 view and profile. As people point out, any oddity in the 3/4 view is because the image was made at a very great distance, and the enlargement (either by long focus lens, cropping the image, or both) makes the perspective odd. The "separations in the fuselage" are surely hatches/doors, just where you'd expect them to be from the profile view, after allowing for perspective.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspe...n_(photography)

Effect of a long lens or cropping, plus reflections of the open hold doors and right wing in the shiny white fuselage skin, not "separations" or creases.

Birds guts don't bounce, they follow the slip stream like a large bug off your car window.

Got it! I was looking at this on the phone, on the computer is is much more clear....that bird is very reflective!

Actually those aircraft are called officially BD-500-1A10 and BD-500-1A11, which does not sound sexy either...