Air India A321 suffers bird strike at Chandigarh

An Air India Airbus A321-200, flight IC-864 from Delhi to Chandigarh (India) with 153 passengers, had landed in Chandigarh and turning off the runway when an eagle hit the nose gear of the aircraft damaging some wires and front wheels. The airplane was towed to the apron where passengers disembarked normally. The return flight had to be cancelled. The airline said, that the eagle got entangled with the nose gear and damaged nose wheels and some wires.
08/09/10 Simon Hradecky/Aviation Herald

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