Bird Strike Almost Killed Me - Pilot Story

(Please Subscribe!) Greg Hughes recounts his story of traveling over the Rocky Mountains in a Van's RV-7a when a bird strike destroyed his canopy, knocking off his headsets and glasses making it difficult to see and impossible to communicate for an emergency landing.

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