Bird hits Spicejet flight in Gujarat, damages nose

Ahmedabad: Just a week after the airport authorities' claimed to have reduced the number of bird hit incidents, a Spicejet flight was hit by a bird on Wednesday morning. The accident was so fierce that the nose of the aircraft -Radome got damaged and this left 68 passengers high and dry.
According to the sources at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPI), the Pune-Ahmedabad-Jaipur flight was hit by a bird (kite) at 9:35 am while the flight was making a landing. The bird hit is said to have completely damaged the nose of the aircraft, said a source, adding that the strike made a dent of about 1 foot in the aircraft's body. A radar (weather radar) housed inside the dome-shaped Radome was also damaged by the impact of the hit.
15/09/11 Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: airports Sep 2011, Safety Sep 2011, spicejet Sep 2011