Originally Posted by
EDC757
Birds rarly are above 5,000' but if you hit one, ouch.
I wouldn't believe this if I wasn't in the jumpseat at the time...but coming in to MCO crossing over the shoreline by DAB in a MD80...somewhere between 10K and 8K...hit a bird or a terradactyl or a 152....I dunno...but it left a hell of a stain on the FO's windscreen...