“According to a government-industry bird strike committee, there were 2,200 bird strikes involving civil aircraft at altitudes of more than 5,000ft above the ground between 1990 and 2008, with the highest altitude incident reported as a collision between an aircraft and a Griffon vulture at 37,000ft off the coast of Africa. “
Good find.
I see the beast is around 25 lbs. According to Wiki, a Minneapolis to Chicago flight should be well out of a Griffon vultures natural range.
Diagram of range here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon_vulture#/media/File:Gyps_fulvus_dis.PNG
