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Watch: IAF F-15 makes emergency landing after bird strike
Video footage from F-15 shows bird strike and subsequent emergency landing
at Tel Nof
Date: 10/10/2011, 6:12 PM Author: IDF Website
http://www.idf.il/1283-13467-en/Dover.aspx

Last Thursday (October 6), an Israel Air Force F-15 "Baz" fighter jet made
an emergency landing at the Tel Nof airbase after it struck a bird during
takeoff.

One of the aircraft's engines caught on fire but the pilot and navigator
were successful in executing a quick emergency landing.

Fire crews put out the blaze shortly after the plane landed.

No one was injured in the incident.

"Suddenly, we saw the plane on fire in the air," said an IAF officer at the
Tel Nof air traffic control tower. "The plane immediately turned to land and
we called fire and rescue services. This was an unusual and frightening
event, but in the end everything functioned properly."