Startling images show an airplane’s nose completely smashed in and smeared in blood from a bird strike.
Latam flight LA3367 had just taken off from Rio de Janeiro heading to São Paulo in Brazil on Thursday when it was struck by birds, forcing it to turn around for an emergency landing, Agencia Brasil reported.
Photos show the Airbus jet’s nose smashed in — with a large hole — and blood smeared around another dent.
Nobody was injured, but the flight was ultimately canceled — angering LATAM’s CEO, Jerome Cadier.
“I’m venting!” the CEO wrote in a frustrated LinkedIn post about the incident.
“Another bird strike occurred. The plane returned safely, but the flight was obviously canceled, disrupting the lives of all the passengers, and of course the airline as well,” the executive wrote.
The incident occurred just days after a Latam flight 3319 from Fortaleza Airport to Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo was struck by birds just minutes after taking off Monday, Diario de Nordeste reported.
That flight was similarly forced to make an emergency landing back at Fortaleza airport, the outlet said.
