Bird smashes through cockpit window in Florida

[xxMATTGxx]

Pilot Rob Weber escaped with a cut to his head after a bird smashed through the windshield of the Piper Saratoga he was flying.

After the incident, which was caught on the plane's camera, he was able to make a calm landing at Fort Myers' Page Field in Florida.


http://youtu.be/cm5PaXDBPT4

Bird hits window around 19-20 seconds in the video.

BBC Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26331570

[Joshirin]

poor bird :/

[Shar]

aww no poor bird :(

[DryRash]

Saw this on the news this morning.
Terrible! Glad no one got hurt. Well the bird did but besides the point :D

[Chris]

That must have scared the crap out of the pilot. Poor bird too. :(

[Absently]

jesus christ how would you even keep calm if that happened to you? i assume the bird died ye...

[scottish]

jesus christ how would you even keep calm if that happened to you? i assume the bird died ye...

Cause panicking ain't gonna end well for you need to keep calm and land carefully

[karter]

birds dont deserve this stupid pilot

[e5]

What bird was it? More glad the pilot is alright !

[GommeInc]

I like how some of you care about the bird. It's just a bird :P It probably survived!

His cut doesn't seem too bad going from the hand he shows near the end with the drop of blood on it. Could be bad if near the eye though. I like how the air control lady was amazed at how calm he was. Pretty good flying.

Does anyone know if anything could have happened if he wasn't so calm, or would it just be like letting go of the controls under normal conditions? It seemed reasonably steady considering it was missing a window.

[Yawn]

r.i.p bird :Heart:

reckless pilot he should lose his license to fly planes!

[lemons]

should of had stronger windows

[-:Undertaker:-]

Birds always do things like this....... we have them flying straight into our windows every year. They're either usually dead or stunned for a few minutes.