Pilot lands plane blind after bird crashes into windshield

[Van Johnston]

Story is almost a month old. Apologies if already posted; I searched but didn’t see it.

SAN ANTONIO — A pilot is receiving treatment at Brooke Army Medical Center after a brush with death in the sky over New Braunfels on October 31.

According to a BAMC spokesperson, Todd Unruh was flying a single passenger, Jason Schroeder, in a small plane from Dallas to New Braunfels for a business meeting.

Unruh, an experienced corporate pilot, said he was preparing to land the plane when he saw what he believes was a hawk in a deep dive. “We were traveling about 250 miles per hour when I saw him flying knife-edge heading straight down into our flight path,” he said.

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[Salty]

Maybe he’s a hero, but he does knife edges wrong.

 

[Zeldman]

That is one reason I always wear glasses. Before I needed glasses I wore safety glasses.

God job for the both of them to get the plane down in one piece.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

A huge fear of mine.
In my first few years of flying, a pilot of a light single augered in, having reported a birdstrike and inability to see before he crashed. Mic held all the way down with sorrow-filled report of his uncontrolled descent.

 

[3393RP]

Maybe he’s a hero, but he does knife edges wrong.

What's that supposed to mean? I'm curious to hear your exalted opinion of how the pilot was inept as he successfully instructed a non-pilot to land a King Air after being severely injured and almost blinded by shattered glass hitting his eyes.

 

[Salty]

What's that supposed to mean? I'm curious to hear your exalted opinion of how the pilot was inept as he successfully instructed a non-pilot to land a King Air after being severely injured and almost blinded by shattered glass hitting his eyes.

It was a smart aleck remark.

“We were traveling about 250 miles per hour when I saw him flying knife-edge heading straight down into our flight path”