Open-billed stork blamed for F5 plane crash in Lop Buri in early December

[snoop1130]

 

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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[scubascuba3]

Maybe stork suicide?

[ThailandRyan]

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?

[tomazbodner]

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

[cmarshall]

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

[ThailandRyan]

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.

[Digitalbanana]

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.

[Upnotover]

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.

[mrfill]

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

 

[hotchilli]

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.

[Cake Monster]

I know why its Bill was open.

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

[MadMac]

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

[KannikaP]

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!

[Burma Bill]

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:-

 

[SW Happy]

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

[unblocktheplanet]

We need storks way more than we need fighter jets.

[Caldera]

Thankfully they found someone to blame the crash on.

[Stargeezr]

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

  very pathetic actually.