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Bird cracks plane windshield
From Staff Reports
A flight that took off from the Purdue airport
Thursday had to turn around and make an emergency landing after a bird
flew into the windshield and cracked it.
The Northwest Airline flight, which was supposed
to go to Detroit, had gotten 20 miles out of West Lafayette when the
bird struck the plane's windshield. Betty Stansbury, the airport's director,
said there were no injuries and no damage to the plane other than the
cracked windshield, which was replaced soon after the incident.
Passengers on the plane, who included Sally Frost
Mason, Purdue's future provost, and Glenn Tompkins, the senior associate
athletic director, were taken from the Purdue Airport to Indianapolis
International Airport where they then flew to Detroit.
Stansbury said the passengers were understanding
of the situation.
She said incidents like this one occasionally happen
to planes. "To my knowledge we've only had one other bird strike, several
years ago," said Stansbury.
The severity of an incident like this depends on
where the bird strikes the aircraft, the size of the aircraft and the
size of the bird. Thursday's incident was not too serious and Stansbury
said the plane only came back as a precautionary measure.
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