BIRD STRIKE GROUNDS 'DOOMSDAY' PLANE

摘要

Navy leaders temporarily grounded a "doomsday aircraft" after it struck a bird during a touch and go landing. The E-6B Mercury aircraft, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 20 at Maryland-based Naval Air Station Patuxent River, suffered at least $2 million in damages after it sucked a bird into one of its four engines during the Oct. 2 landing.