Air India Express flight cancelled after eagle strikes aircraft nose in Vijayawada

Within the span of two days, two separate Indian airlines found their flights interrupted not by mechanical failure or human error, but by the ancient, indifferent presence of birds sharing the same sky. An eagle grounded an Air India Express flight in Vijayawada before it could depart, while an IndiGo aircraft returned to Nagpur after a strike shortly after liftoff — both incidents unfolding without serious injury, yet together forming a pattern that asks quiet questions about how modern aviation coexists with the natural world it has never fully displaced.