What: Porter Airlines de Havilland Dash en route from Windsor to Toronto
Where: CYQG WINDSOR, ONTARIO
When: Sep 21, 2012
Who: 32 aboard
Why: The flight took off from Windsor and continued to Toronto, believing they had a bird strike. After landing, the condition of the plane indicated to examiners that the damage was due to a tail strike.
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