Drone or Bird Strike Forces Airliner to Land

Wouldn't be too sure. I knocked a good chunk out of a 172 wing with a turkey buzzard (this I know because I saw it at the last moment) without any blood or feathers.
 
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My money is on this guy...

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Weather ballon payload! Weighs a few pounds. What's odd is, whatever it was struck dead center on the nose.
 
Looks like the plane was going so fast that the nose just caved in from all the air.....:rolleyes:
 
I hate it when I am right....

https://abc7ny.com/delta-flight-diverted-after-hail-damages-nose/6303574/

A Delta Airlines says hail, not a bird, caused the damage that forced a flight to make an emergency landing at JFK Airport in New York City.

The Airbus A319 carrying 43 passengers from Palm Beach, Florida, landed safely at JFK Airport just before 7:00 p.m. on Monday.

Photos show that the plane's front cone, which houses radar equipment, sustained significant damage.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL1076/history/20200706/2000Z/KPBI/KJFK
 
This article is more recent than the daily mail article. I think the lack of any blood or guts points towards hail, but I donno.

This pic is of another airbus that went through hail in China.
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I bet flying through hail big enough to do that makes quite a racket inside!
 
We've done it too:

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What does this do to the turbine fans when you go through this ? I imagine if the nose looks like that, the internals of the engines probably gets dinged up pretty bad. Like a whole bunch of high speed FOD.
 
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