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Planes fly very fast

Commercial airliner windows are chemically strengthened and designed to withstand bird strikes, but it’s not impossible if you’re really unlucky.

See here for another plane with weaker glass: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/12iqve4/...

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Ah thanks. But even then, there’s two pilots for redundancy, so it would take an extreme event that both pilots got knocked out..?

It won’t be this. People on that forum talk about hitting many more birds at much higher speeds with much less issues. The landing gear should have been deployed before the strike too? Happened at 200 meters I believe?

That was a light aircraft with a very different windscreen. The ones in airliners are very tough.

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