British Air Traffic Control: Beware of Giant Vulture at 35,000 Feet

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USA Today
August 20, 2010

Commercial airline pilots flying over Scotland and Britain have been told to be on the watch for a vulture with a 10-foot wingspan that can fly at heights exceeding 30,000 feet.

Reuters says the bird -- a 7-year-old Ruppell's Vulture -- escaped and "has not been seen since she caught a warm thermal during a show at the World of Wings center in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on Tuesday."

That prompted Britain's air traffic control group to issue the warning. "We made pilots aware of the possibility of seeing this bird as it has a three-meter wingspan and can fly at altitudes used by commercial aircraft," a British air traffic control spokesman says to the Telegraph of London.

The Telegraph adds that "in 1974, a collision was recorded between one of the creatures and an aircraft at a height of 37,000ft."

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