A bird crashed into the nose of the plane, the captain quickly turned around and requested an emergency landing.

(Dan Tri) - A collision between a large bird and a weather radar caused severe damage to the nose of the plane. The incident occurred on an Iberia (Spain) flight on August 3.

An Airbus plane was grounded after a serious accident caused by a bird strike during takeoff at an airport in Spain on August 3.

Iberia flight IB579 was forced to return to Madrid after reportedly colliding with a large bird during take-off.

Images taken at Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas Airport, the largest aviation hub in the Spanish capital, show the plane's radome (nose) severely damaged. The front part of the material has come off the Airbus A321-253NY. The flight was scheduled to go to Paris.

The plane's nose was badly damaged after colliding with a bird (Photo: Mail).

In one photo, the bird that caused the incident was even found stuck in one of the plane's engines.

Data from FlightRadar24 shows the plane made a brief circle around the Madrid area before the captain requested an emergency landing back at the airport. The flight reportedly took off for about an hour before landing abruptly due to unforeseen circumstances.

This is the latest incident to affect the aviation industry this week, after a series of major airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Edinburgh and Birmingham were forced to suspend flights, leaving thousands of passengers stranded on the runway.

The cause was a technical problem at the NATS Swanwick air traffic control center, causing all flights to and from London (UK) to be delayed, causing chaos in schedules.

Many passengers on summer trips expressed their anger on social media, sharing photos taken from plane windows being held on the ground or saying they were diverted to Brussels, Belgium.

In fact, collisions between planes and birds are not simple matters, and have caused many tragedies, warning of safety risks in the global aviation industry.

Plane collisions with birds have caused many aviation tragedies (Photo: News).

In December 2024, a horrifying scene took place in South Korea when the landing gear of Jeju Air's Boeing 737-800 flight number 7C2216 failed, causing it to crash onto the runway at Muan International Airport.

175 passengers were killed, along with four crew members. Video shown on South Korean television showed what appeared to be a bird flying into the plane's right engine as it was preparing to land.

So why can seemingly small and harmless birds cause giant planes to malfunction, crash, or even lead to serious accidents?

When an airplane is traveling at hundreds of kilometers per hour, colliding with small objects, even those weighing only a few grams, such as birds, will cause a huge impact force.

Collisions with birds can break cockpit windows and damage aircraft components such as landing gear, wings, navigation radars, or external sensors.

The damage of collisions will be even higher if the plane hits large birds such as hawks, geese...

According to data from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, bird strikes cause about $900 million in damage each year in this country alone.

Similar crashes have also contributed to Mattala Rajapaksha International Airport in Sri Lanka being dubbed the " world's emptiest airport".

According to the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Orville Wright, a pioneer in the creation of airplanes, recorded the first bird collision while using this form of vehicle.

Since then, thousands of planes have suffered similar incidents. Bird strikes have increased nearly sixfold since 1990, hitting a record 10,343 in 2012, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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