Look at this big-ass giant hole on the front of this airplane.

I saw this and I was like did the plane run into a wall at the airport? How do you get a hole that size on the front of an airplane?

It was a bird. Y’all, birds is hella dangerous these days, exploding on children and putting craters in airplanes?!

From NY Daily News:

A United Airlines 737 collided with a bird during its descent into Denver International Airport, ABC News reported.

The pilots, flying into the country’s largest airport from Dallas, declared an emergency when they became aware of the bird bash.

Christen David, a spokeswoman for United, told the local station that none of the 151 passengers on the flight were injured.

As for the plane, that was a different story. A gaping hole was left in the nose of the craft, with some pretty major signs of damage from the winged creature’s impact.

Unsightly as the nasal indentation may have been, an aviation expert told the station that the nose is actually the best place for an airplane to get hit.

“It didn’t affect the engines. It didn’t affect the landing gear from coming down at all,” Steve Cowell, who is also a pilot, told the station. “Passengers probably wouldn’t have felt anything, but the pilot certainly would have heard the smack of the bird on the nose.”

Cowell said that things would have gone smoothly if the pilots knew what they were doing.

“If (the pilots) were off their autopilot, they might have known to have to pitch the airplane up or down just a little bit differently to what they were used to doing,” he said.

(via Towleroad)

Who is this man giving the interview? I think there is an inner queen lurking in there somewhere.

Cowell said that things would have gone smoothly if the pilots knew what they were doing.

“If (the pilots) were off their autopilot, they might have known to have to pitch the airplane up or down just a little bit differently to what they were used to doing,” he said.

No but really, let’s get serious. And by let’s get serious, I mean let’s freak out because clearly airplanes are made out of papier mache and catfish skin. The plane didn’t get hit by an elephant or a triceratops or something. It was a bird. Those itty bitty things that sit on power lines and make messes on your newly-washed car. A bird put a hole the size of Jupiter on the front of an airplane.

I’m bout to take page out of Aretha’s book and just take the bus everywhere. If it’s good enough for the Queen of Soul, it’s good enough for me.

(Except her weave situation; I don’t trust her judgement on those matters.)