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King5 News out of Seattle

Plane lands at Boeing Field after hitting bird

by KING5.com Staff
Posted on January 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Updated yesterday at 6:21 PM
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SEATTLE – A plane belonging to a small airline made an emergency landing at Boeing Field Friday afternoon after hitting a bird.


The Sea-Port Airlines plane left Portland for Boeing Field. The airline says the plane hit a bird at 10,000 feet, cracking the outer part of the windshield.


All other systems continued to operate normally.
The plane, with two pilots and five passengers, was already descending toward its destination when the impact happened.

eaglefly

OMG...........a BIRD STRIKE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Juice

Birds in the sky!!!

What is this world coming to?

dashtrash300

Good thing Lake Washington and Puget Sound are on either side of it

dashtrash300

Just wanted to hit 300

The Juice

Wait till you hit 1,000....it is a good time to examine your lifes choices and why you spend so much time on these boards.

AirWillie

The Pacific Northwesterners have just asked the FAA to put a probe in to investigate the benefits of placing transponders on birds in the Portland and Seattle area. They want to stop the senseless killings of birds so that other parts of the country may benefit. Furtther, the FAA believes this is a worthy project in an effort to save lives of humas too. More to come.

FL450

Oh great just what we need at Seaport... I can see the read file on this incident right now...

OnMyWay

I can see the headlines now: "PETA to sue pilots for bird strike. Lawsuit embraced by King County Politicians".

FlyJSH

"Why doesn't someone just make like an umbrella thingy to like point in front of the airplane to like push the birds like outta the way?"