Flight Lands With Bird Stuck in Nose

Bird strikes are not uncommon for commercial flights. However, rarely if ever has a bird become lodged in a plane's nose.

Until now.

An American Airlines flight from Mexico City to Miami collided with a large bird on approach to Miami International Airport Tuesday and taxied to the gate with the animal protruding from the plane's nose.

According to Local 10 News, the incident occurred around 11 a.m. ET Tuesday. The flight landed safely, and no injuries were reported. Video captured on the tarmac shows stunned airport workers snapping pictures of the bizarre scene.

"We deal with bird strikes...but never like this": Plane lands safely at Miami Airport after bird strike, with the bird stuck in its nose. https://t.co/yGRszO3BnI pic.twitter.com/IBqxgsl26n

— ABC News (@ABC) November 16, 2017

Animal services eventually removed the dead bird from the plane.

A somewhat similar incident occurred over Africa in September when a bird smashed a gaping hole through the nose of a Badr Airlines flight. Another recent bird strike forced a Japan Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Tokyo.

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Citing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Local 10 points out that a majority of these strikes in the U.S. occur during landing. Last year, the FAA confirmed there were 160,000 bird strikes reported in the U.S. from 1990 to 2015.

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