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Brian Noldt
17th November 2017, 10:49 AM
American Airlines flight 1498 from Mexico City to Miami was on approach to Miami airport when it suffered a bird strike.

Story and video here:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/miami-bound-flight-lands-safely-despite-shattering-nose-on-giant-bird-2017-11?r=US&IR=T

Another video here:
https://youtu.be/XSf91jA3hQg

Philip Argy
18th November 2017, 08:24 PM
The second video shows how thin skinned the radome cover is on the A319 - is that the same on larger Airbus?