ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Two police helicopter pilots survive a scare in midair.
The St. Louis Metro Air Support officers spoke with FOX 2 after a duck strike last week.
It left the officers bloodied and took out much of their windshield. The duck was killed.
It had been a routine night. The officer/pilots were on patrol. It was around 7:30 p.m. It had just gotten dark. They didn’t even see the danger coming.
“We train for emergency procedures. We don’t necessarily train for a bird to come through the front windshield,” said St. Louis police pilot Bob Simons. “I kind of saw a flash out of my eye, the right side of my eye.”
Then he felt a rush of incoming air. The helicopter was traveling at about 100 knots at the time of the collision, he said. Broken plexiglass was swirling through the cockpit.
Read more on this story at Fox 2.
