A Tarco Airlines Boeing 737-300, registration C5-MAB performing flight 3T-400 from Khartoum to El Fasher (Sudan) with 108 people on board, was on approach to El Fasher when a large bird impacted and penetrated the nose cone of the aircraft and became embedded in the nose of the aircraft. The crew continued for a safe landing in El Fasher.
A replacement aircraft was dispatched to perform the return flight 3T-401.
The airline reported a bird impacted the nose of the aircraft just before landing in El Fasher.
The Aviation Herald
