[thackney]

A spokesperson for Turkish Airlines told MailOnline Travel: ‘The damage of the nose area (radome) by bird hit is a common incident on civil aeronautical operations.

‘The radome area of a plane is constructed by soft materials (composit) to minimalize the impact of such hits.

‘Therefore, such standard/normal deformation occurs as a natural result of such incidents.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Soft composites. Interesting. I don’t know much about composites, except most I’ve dealt with are much more like fiberglass and tend to just crack and break, not deform.

And yes, I’ve worked in air design, but more just electronics and not radome area.

[blackdog]

Flew a Falcon 20 and we had a bird strike along the pilot side angle of attack linkage. It peeled the skin of the plane back about three feet like peeling a banana. The ground crew determined it was a goose. Most of the bird went thru the engine. Fortunately no metal separated from the fuselage to go along with the bird.

What a goose was doing at 16,000 feet was his business?