Queen Consort Camilla
Moment of shock on her return flight from India
Queen Consort Camilla in London in mid-October.
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Incident during return flight of King Consort Camilla from India to England. On approach to London, a bird damaged the plane.
Shocking moment for Queen Consort Camilla (75) on her flight from India to Great Britain. According to the “Daily Mail” was the plane, in which the king’s wife was staying, was struck by a bird and severely damaged in the nose. According to the report, the wife of King Charles III. (73) on a British Airways flight from Bangalore to London Heathrow when the Boeing 777-200ER collided with a bird on approach to land shortly before 1 p.m. local time on Friday afternoon. A large dent can be seen at the tip of the aircraft’s nose on the pictures shown.
Buckingham Palace has not yet commented on the incident, but the king’s wife is said to have been on the plane after a ten-day spa stay in India. At no time was there a risk of the plane crashing. A spokesman for the airline said the passenger plane landed safely and all customers were able to disembark as usual. The aircraft is now being examined more closely, but it is assumed that it can soon be reintegrated into normal operations.