{"id":15768,"date":"2013-06-12T06:36:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2013-06-12T06:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:36:28","slug":"was-it-a-bird-a-plane-or-a-ufo-chinese-passenger-jet-hits-mysterious-object-at-26000ft-and-lands-with-severely-dented-nose-cone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=15768","title":{"rendered":"Was it a bird? A Plane? Or a UFO?? Chinese passenger jet hits mysterious object at 26,000ft and lands with severely dented nose cone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/UFO-hits-the-plane1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15766\" alt=\"UFO hits the plane1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/UFO-hits-the-plane1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/UFO-hits-the-plane1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/UFO-hits-the-plane1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/UFO-hits-the-plane1-415x300.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a mysterious mid-air collision with a &#8216;foreign object&#8217; at 26,000ft severely dented its nose cone.<\/p>\n<p>The front of the Air China Boeing 757 had been pushed in and scratches and scraped paintwork\u00a0 were clearly visible when it landed.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was climbing over China when a large bang was heard from the front of aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot said the aircraft was struggling to perform and he immediately called air traffic controllers, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said investigations into the suspected crash have raised suspicions that the aircraft was hit by a &#8216;foreign object&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>However, they do not believe it was caused by a bird strike as no blood or feathers were visible on the dented nose cone.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures have prompted online speculation that it was caused by a UFO or a drone strike.<\/p>\n<p>Other theories posted on the Aviation Herald include pressure from rapidly heated and expanded air.<\/p>\n<p>Former government UFO investigator Nick Pope told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/4962798\/did-chinese-plane-have-mid-air-crash-with-UFO.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun<\/a><b> <\/b>that an examination of the nose cone should reveal what hit it.<\/p>\n<p>However, he questioned whether the &#8216;secretive&#8217; Chinese would reveal the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pope told The Sun: &#8216;Cases like this show that whatever people believe about UFOs, there are serious air safety issues here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a mysterious mid-air collision&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-15768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-china-2","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}