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United Airlines Flight 1475 was accustomed 151 cartage from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as it fabricated its landing in Denver back the bird collided with the plane. The flight landed cautiously at about 9:09 a.m.

You can appearance accident to the even afterwards the bird collided with the aircraft here.

Aviation able and pilot Steve Cowen told ABC 7News in Denver that hitting the adenoids of the aircraft was the best abode on the jet the bird could accept hit.

"It didn't affect the engines. It didn't affect the landing accessory from advancing bottomward at all," Cowell told 7News. "Passengers apparently wouldn't accept acquainted anything, but the pilot absolutely would accept heard the accurately of the bird on the nose."

It's cryptic what blazon of bird fabricated appulse with the Boeing 737. The National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate the incident.

"If I were to put money on it, I would say it would be a ample absorption bird such as a goose or a duck," Kendra Cross, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, told 7News. "It could accept been added than one bird? We don't apperceive that. We've taken samples off of assorted genitalia of the even that had impact, so we'll be able to actuate if it's added than one bird or if it's aloof one bird."

Col. Stephen Ganyard, an on-air aerodynamics adviser for ABC News, told WXYZ that the United Airlines cadre are able for scenarios such as the bird colliding with the plane.

"It's consistently alarming back an aircraft hits a bird. In this case, it was article that the crews accept been accomplished to handle," Ganyard said. "The aircraft has bombastic systems that can booty affliction of the problems acquired by this bird strike."