What would happen if an airplane hit a bird in the air?

What will happen, will depend on factors like size of bird, point of impact, number of birds, speed of both the aircraft and the bird on point of collision etc. Bird strikes are a significant threat to flight safety, and have caused a number of accidents with human casualties. read more

Poor birdie. If you ever wondered what would happen if an airplane and a bird hit each other head on, here it is. It doesn’t end up exactly how you think it would. Well, it kind of does as in the bird loses but it is a little surprising in how high and straight the bird bounces in the air after hitting the nose of the jet. Poor birdie. read more