A vulture was filmed dangling upside down inside a plane cockpit after smashing through the windscreen mid-flight.
Footage taken by a passenger shows the pilot taxiing after landing with the carcass dangling just inches from his head.
Another piece of footage filmed on the tarmac shows how the strike had left a massive hole in the windshield.
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The large bird can be seen partially sticking out of the hole and blood can be seen spattered around it.
The vulture struck the light aircraft on Thursday (5 Dec) morning as it was coming in to land in Eirunepé, Amazonas, Brazil.
None of the five people on board the plane, which had taken off from Envira Airport, were injured.
Despite the shock and panic among the passengers, the pilot managed to land the plane safely.
The carcass was eventually dislodged from the windscreen and removed from the scene.
It’s believed the vulture was in the area because the airport is located near the small city’s rubbish tip.
The presence of organic waste there may have attracted the scavenger species, as reported by Need To Know.
Local media quoted one of the passengers as saying: “We thought we wouldn’t make it out alive.
“It’s a miracle the pilot managed to land with that right in his face.”
The pilot himself reportedly said: “It was a close call!
“This is the fault of the rubbish dump next to the airport, which attracts an absurd number of vultures to the area.”
Last month, on 15 November, a Brazilian helicopter pilot exclaimed “Holy sh*t!” as a vulture slammed into his chopper windscreen.
Footage from the cockpit shows how he spotted the huge bird hurtling towards him and attempted a sharp turn.
But before he could get out of the way, it slammed into the windshield head-on and at full force over the hilly terrain.
The impact was so hard that an iPad fixed to the inside of the windscreen with a suction cup was sent flying towards him.
Pilot Cleyson Freire could be heard blurting out “Holy sh*t! Damn, bro!” as the device missed him by a whisker.
Luckily, the polycarbonate windscreen withstood the hit and the alert pilot managed to keep the copter under control.
Freire was operating the executive flight from Jundiaí to São Paulo.
Following the scare, Freire managed to land the Robinson R66 at its intended destination without further incident.
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