“Dwarfed by the jetliner, they look little more than a smattering of
black dots. But this flock of birds could have brought the plane
crashing down in seconds. They flew straight into the path of the
Germania airlines flight to Kosovo as it took off from Dusseldorf
airport with 80 on board. ‘It was like a scene from the Hitchcock movie
The Birds. One second all was clear, and the next thing you saw were
these birds swarming over the plane,’ said an onlooker. It
is thought more than 200 starlings were sucked into the right engine as
the Boeing jet approached 200mph. Others dented the fuselage but
thankfully did not pierce it. Their splattered remains could be seen on
the plane later.” w/ photos
“Erold Sigurdsson,
65-year-old man from northern Sweden, is once again counting his
blessings and picking up the pieces after a truckload of timber slammed
into his house on Thursday – for the third time. By now, Sigurdsson
is familiar with the loud rumbling and violent shaking that occurs when
a load of timber flies off one of the many trucks that round the bend
on route 363 in front of his house in Örträsk, just south of Lycksele
in north central Sweden. On Thursday, Sigurdsson happened to be in his
attic as another timber truck came around the turn, prompting a
recognizable sound. “I realized what was happening when things started
rumbling and the house started shaking. All the doors were blocked by
the logs so I had to wait for help,” Sigurdsson told the local
Västerbottens Kuriren newspaper. “It’s happened three times before. The
first time was in 1989 and the second time the house really took a
licking was about five years ago.” w/ photos
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