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Bird-Hit Royal Air Force Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing at Cardiff Airport

RAFA Royal Air Force helicopter had to make an emergency landing at Cardiff Airport in the Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom, on the morning of February 4.

According to a Ministry of Defence spokesperson, “Two RAF aircraft were training in Pembrey when one aircraft thought it had been struck by a bird…As a precaution the aircraft asked to land at the nearest airport which was Cardiff…There was no damaged discovered and both aircraft returned to the RAF Valley base in Anglesea.”

Airport authorities confirmed that Hawk T1 made an uneventful emergency landing and no one aboard was harmed.

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