Air India Express cancels Vijayawada-Bengaluru flight after eagle strikes aircraft nose

Passengers were inconvenienced by flight cancellation but were provided alternate travel arrangements with no reported injuries.

At Vijayawada airport on Thursday, an eagle struck the nose of an Air India Express aircraft as it taxied toward the runway, grounding a flight bound for Bengaluru before it ever left the earth. The encounter is ancient in its essence — the sky has always belonged to more than one kind of traveler — yet it arrives as part of a broader pattern of operational interruptions for the airline, prompting quiet questions about whether the systems meant to manage such risks are keeping pace with the demands placed upon them. No one was harmed, and passengers were rerouted, but the incident lingers as a

Air India Express cancels Vijayawada-Bengaluru flight after eagle strikes aircraft nose

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