bird strike

noun

1. a collision of an aircraft with a bird

Example Sentences

Many of these calamities are well known, like the still-mysterious crash of EgyptAir 990 and the miraculous story of US Airways 1549, which was landed safely on the Hudson River by Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger after a bird strike knocked out both of its engines.

From New York Times

"There's lots of ways you can get precursors to delamination, such as from impacts, like tool drop, bird strike, runway kickup in aircraft, and there could be almost no visible damage, but internally it has a delamination," Wardle says.

From Science Daily

Other data came from eBird.org, various local and national birdwatching email lists, iNaturalist.org and the Federal Aviation Administration's bird strike records.

From Science Daily

A Jet2 aircraft bound for Lanzarote had to perform an emergency landing after a suspected bird strike.

From BBC

Elordi said that the airline has hired pilot Sully Sullenberger — who ditched a passenger flight on the Hudson River in 2009 after both engines were disabled by a bird strike — out of retirement.

From Seattle Times