snoop1130 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Thailand’s Wildlife Forensic Science Centre has identified the large bird which collided with a Royal Thai Force F5 jet, causing it to crash into a rice field in Chai Badan district of Lop Buri on December 3rd, as an open-billed stork. Dr. Kanita Oueythavorn, head of the centre at the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, told Thai PBS that the bird was identified from a small piece of bone and blood stains found at the site of the crash by DNA analysis. The DNA matches that of an open-billed stork, said Dr. Kanita, adding that the carcass of the bird and even its feathers were completely destroyed in the mid-air impact, which broke the cockpit windshield. Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/open-billed-stork-blamed-for-f5-plane-crash-in-lop-buri-in-early-december/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-12-28 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubascuba3 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Maybe stork suicide? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Photo in the OP not looking like an F5, and how do they know it was a stork, did they find any thing other than the windshield crack and the small bone fragment and blood on the ground? Was the pilot wearing a helmet cam? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazbodner Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Some countries spend billions of dollars to buy anti-aircraft systems. Maybe they could just start breeding storcks instead... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cmarshall Posted December 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2021 (edited) Too bad. Open-billed storks are handsome birds that fly beautifully. And then there are so many planes. The pictures looks like the Airbus A320 that landed in the Hudson River a few years ago, not a fighter jet. Edited December 28, 2021 by cmarshall 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 12 minutes ago, cmarshall said: Too bad. Open-billed storks are handsome birds that fly beautifully. And then there are so many planes. The pictures looks like the Airbus A320 that landed in the Hudson River a few years ago, not a fighter jet. It does look like Sully's bird now doesn't it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Digitalbanana Posted December 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2021 50 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: Photo in the OP not looking like an F5, Perhaps the news reporter was watching Sully at the time and couldn't be bothered looking for any other graphic. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Upnotover Posted December 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2021 58 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: Photo in the OP not looking like an F5, and how do they know it was a stork, did they find any thing other than the windshield crack and the small bone fragment and blood on the ground? Was the pilot wearing a helmet cam? It says DNA analysis. And we all know how good they are at them here. Always get the answer desired. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrfill Posted December 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2021 12 hours ago, ThailandRyan said: Photo in the OP not looking like an F5, and how do they know it was a stork, did they find any thing other than the windshield crack and the small bone fragment and blood on the ground? Was the pilot wearing a helmet cam? It's also a very wet field - even for a paddy 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 13 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Thailand’s Wildlife Forensic Science Centre has identified the large bird which collided with a Royal Thai Force F5 jet, causing it to crash into a rice field in Chai Badan district of Lop Buri on December 3rd, as an open-billed stork. I have an idea what it was saying when it hit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake Monster Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 I know why its Bill was open. It was shouting the words " Oh S##t " 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMac Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 (edited) This F5 was 60-70 years old. Stork? Sure. I would guess there were no more spares for that scrap metal. Many of them crashed in the 1960's and 1970's. Edited December 29, 2021 by MadMac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KannikaP Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 18 hours ago, cmarshall said: Too bad. Open-billed storks are handsome birds that fly beautifully. And then there are so many planes. The pictures looks like the Airbus A320 that landed in the Hudson River a few years ago, not a fighter jet. Go to the link and the photo there shows............a pond! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 18 hours ago, ThailandRyan said: It does look like Sully's bird now doesn't it. Yes indeed, as many have said. US AIRWAYS Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River on 15 January 2009. I found the same photo in Wikipedia:- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW Happy Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Actually its bill was shut until the last second before impact. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unblocktheplanet Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 We need storks way more than we need fighter jets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caldera Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Thankfully they found someone to blame the crash on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargeezr Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Many thanks to the reporter who could not even go on google to get a picture of an F5 fighter jet, very pathetic actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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