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A spokesperson for Air Namibia told the Namibian national newspaper: “Bird strikes are common during landing and taking off of an aircraft because these are the times when the aircraft is flying in the ranges when the bird is also flying.

"A big bird hit one of our four A319-100 aircraft that services our regional routes just when it was about to land. It left one of the underbody panels of the aircraft damaged.”

Bird Strikes are common and do not usually impact on the safety of flights. However according to the Birdstrike Committee USA bird and other wildlife strikes to aircraft result in more than $600 million in damage to US civil and military aviation each year, the Independent reported.

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