Another Story of an Airplane and a Bird…

By Corey • October 8, 2009 • 1 comment

…though this one ended much less heroically than the “Miracle on the Hudson.” Who would have thought that a single sparrow getting on board a passenger jet would eventually force all 123 passengers off the plane so flight crew could capture the bird? Well, it happened in Seoul to an Air Korea Jet. Fortunately, British Air has a plan for such an eventuality.

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

One Response to “Another Story of an Airplane and a Bird…”

John Oct 8th, 2009 at 11:07 am
We know he could identify it, photograph it, and blog about it, but could he catch it?

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