Kuhl’s Pipistrelle “Stopped” an Airliner in Astrakhan

Wildlife collisions with aircrafts accompanied aviation since the very beginning of its development. The first incidents of bird collisions with aircrafts were recorded already at the beginning of the last century, while the first bat collisions with aircrafts have been mentioned only since the 1940s. The nocturnal and secretive lifestyle of bats makes it much more difficult to determine even the species composition of this order at airports, not to mention a detailed study of applied aspects related to aviation. The article describes an accidental collision of Kuhl’s pipistrelle weighing no more than 10 g with an aircraft, which led to the forced stop of a huge Airliner.

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