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Lower Saxony: Rescue helicopter collides with bird of prey and has to make an emergency landing

2021-05-08T21:24:37.074Z


On the way from Hanover to Bremen, a rescue helicopter collided with a bird of prey. A rotor blade was damaged and the pilot landed on a dirt road.


Rescue helicopter (symbol image)

Photo: Patrick Seeger / dpa

A collision with a bird of prey forced a rescue helicopter in Lower Saxony to make an emergency landing on a dirt road.

The pilot landed his machine after the collision on Thursday afternoon to be on the safe side near the municipality of Eystrup, the police said.

A rotor blade of the helicopter was reportedly slightly damaged.

The crew was unharmed.

However, the helicopter must be loaded and transported away, it said.

The police believe that the bird was killed in the collision.

The helicopter crew took a taxi to the nearest base in order to be ready for use again with a replacement machine.

According to the police, the helicopter was on a flight from Hanover to Bremen when the bird got into the rotor blades.

hba / AFP

Source: spiegel

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