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/

 

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Maybe stork suicide?

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?

Some countries spend billions of dollars to buy anti-aircraft systems. Maybe they could just start breeding storcks instead...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

 

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.

I know why its Bill was open.

It was shouting the words " Oh S##t "

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.

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!

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:-

 

Actually its bill was shut until the last second before impact. ????

We need storks way more than we need fighter jets.

Thankfully they found someone to blame the crash on.

Many thanks to the reporter who could not even go on google to get a picture of an F5 fighter jet,

  very pathetic actually.