Fish hits Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 cockpit window in Yakutsk
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- A bald eagle released a fish it was carrying, and the fish struck the cockpit window of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737, which then landed safely in Yakutsk with no injuries to crew or passengers; the eagle flew away unharmed and the fish was the only victim.
- The incident is recorded as the first known case of a fish colliding with an aircraft in flight and is noted among roughly 71,500 bird strikes reported worldwide each year.
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