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Date Published: 28/10/2021
ARCHIVED - Vulture collides with plane in Madrid
The aircraft landed safely in Barajas airport after the incident
Extraordinary images have emerged of the moment a huge vulture collided with the nose of an Iberia Airbus A350 plane minutes before it came in to land at the Adolfo Suarez-Madrid Barajas airport on Wednesday October 27.
Its impact went unnoticed by passengers travelling from Bogotá and authorities have confirmed that the safety of the flight was not jeopardised in any way. On impact, the bird was embedded in the fibre dome that protects the plane’s radar antenna, but this piece of the aircraft is easily replaced.
Air traffic controllers tweeted that the flight had “landed safely” on runway 32L in Madrid, before adding that the runway had been checked and all subsequent air traffic had been informed of the incident.
The black vulture population can be found across seven autonomous communities in Spain and totals 2,548 breeding pairs. As air traffic controllers involved in the latest episode pointed out, it is “one of the largest and heaviest birds in Europe.”
Impacto de ave de un A350 este mediodía en #Madrid Barajas pista 32L. Un buitre negro, una de las aves más grandes y pesadas de Europa 😢.
— 😷Controladores Aéreos 🇪🇸 (@controladores) October 27, 2021
El vuelo ha aterrizado sin novedad. Se ha revisado pista y se transmite información al resto de tráfico en secuencia. #SafetyFirst pic.twitter.com/tie8FBNBgb
Image: Controladores Aereos
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