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That's not a wing, it's the horizontal stabilizer (in the tail) . The airplane was probably a little unstable in pich during landing, but it's overall lift wasn't seriously compromised.
I've seen bird strike damage too...never as severe as that because the airplanes I'm around don't go that fast. They also don't tend to bring the birds home still embedded in the airframe.
FAA and NASA have air cannon they use to shoot whole chickens at airframe parts to simulate bird strikes to leading edges and windshields. I understand they found out that using frozen chickens was a bad idea though.
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11-24-2002, 12:14 AM
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