Amazing Thailand.

Because no bird carcass was found the aircraft was cleared to leave. Never mind the damage remained the same.

That is no more than a silly post.

Ground engineers would have made an assessment based on maintenance manual criteria, probably carried out function tests on the leading edge devices, and cleared it to fly. It's even likely that pictures, and detailed dimensions of the 'damage', were sent off to Airbus for their opinion.

Maintenance men are licensed, and only licensed personnel are authorized to 'sign off' an aircraft to fly. If they clear an aircraft to fly and there is a subsequent problem they are called to account, and I bet that's even in Thailand. Also, the aircraft manufacturers oversee airline operations, and the last thing they want to see is one of their aircraft involved in a crash, or even a serious incident because of maintenance issues.....bad for business.

An aircraft can fly with significant damage although it's not desirable from a safety or public perception point of view, nor is it necessary. One only need see pics of military aircraft with large parts of the airframe missing as a result of battle damage to know that they will fly in that condition.

To hit a bird it's not a joke at all.

I was in my way to Kuala Lumpur when a bird was hit by plane. We heard a huge "bummmm" and a Polish passenger next to me almost ate his fingers.

I hope the Polish passenger never lost his fingers in the bummm

Looking at the second image why haven't the airways logo's haven't been painted over like the Thai Airways flight?

See the guy under the wing - some blokes will go to great lengths to find a Thai bird.