Bird collides with Alaska Airlines plane that landed at SFO
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — An Alaska Airlines aircraft collided with a bird midflight on Thursday, the airline confirmed to KRON4. Flight 224, going from Boston to San Francisco (SFO), was discovered to be hit by a bird or a flock of birds.
The flight landed at SFO around noon. No emergency was declared before the arrival of Flight 224, Alaska Airlines said. The bird strike impacted the flight.
A photo sent to KRON4 shows a dent on the aircraft (below). The dent comes after the bird strike on the aircraft midflight.
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The aircraft was removed from normal operations for inspection. According to Alaska Airlines’ website, Flight 224 arrived at SFO at 12:02 p.m. — 30 minutes earlier than its scheduled arrival.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 63% of bird strikes happen during the day. Between 1990 and 2019, there were 227,005 wildlife strikes with a civil aircraft in the U.S. The FAA says 97% of these wildlife strikes involve birds.
No other details were immediately available.
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