On 7 May, a Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire) Airbus A400M Atlas military transport was damaged following a bird strike. The aircraft was on approach to Zaragoza Air Base, located around 262 km northeast of Spain’s capital Madrid.
Nobody got injured in the incident but the aircraft suffered substantial damage to its under-fuselage near one of the aft wheel wells.
#BirdStrike en un #Airbus #A400 del #Ala31 del @EjercitoAire de #España. Desconozco la zona en la que se ha producido el impacto. #Incidente #ImpactoDeAve #Safety #Pájaros #Aviones pic.twitter.com/wk9O7XQbXZ
— Iván Castro Palacios (@ivancp25) May 7, 2020