Brown pelican: Aircraft Strikes

Notable strikes

• 1994-07-15 · C-172 · Brown pelican · Destroyed · 1 fatal

  1 fatality. A/c was seen flying above the water along the beach. A bystander video taped the a/c as what appeared to be a lrg bird collided with the a/c in the windshld area. The a/c rolled invtrted & hit the water. The tape was computer enhanced by the…

• 2025-08-17 · BELL-505 · Brown pelican · Substantial

  Fire6 transitioning north along the shoreline throught lax bravo. After passing rwy25r they struck a pelican in a large flock of about 50 shattering the right pilot side window. Fire6 diverted from their original destination and landed at ksmo with no…