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Little Rock International Airport
A Delta Airlines plane shows damage after running into a flock of large birds twenty miles from Little Rock International Airport on Friday, April 1.
Airport spokeswoman T.J. Williams said Flight 5087 was headed to Little Rock from Atlanta when pilots reported the bird strike at 3:38 p.m. Friday, about 20 miles southeast of the airport. Williamssays pilots were able to land without incident and no one on board was hurt. She says passengers have left the plane. Williams didn't know if any of them were making connecting flights.
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Williams says Delta officials plan to examine the plane and decide if anything needs to be done. She says officials don't know what kind of birds were hit. Even though the incident didn't occur at the airport, officials use cannons to frighten away birds.
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Is that a Whooping Crane????
Birds has the right of way. Were you drinking? Arkansas Wild life should press charges.
wacth out
In the very first picture...is that a white cat sticking out of the nose of the plane??? What is that??
Delta officials are going to decide if anything needs to be done?! I think it's pretty clear that there's some serious damage!
A few things:
1) That is NOT a Delta plane. It is an Atlantic Southeast Airlines plane flown by ASA pilots under contract for Delta.
2) It is Delta Air Lines... not Delta Airlines. People actually get resumes trashed for getting that wrong.
Wisenose, it is just a Newspaper Article. Not a Resume test to get hired by Delta.
Totally White Pelicans! Egads.