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A Florida pilot said he felt flat out panic after a bird shattered the front window of his small aircraft -- in mid-air. But if he felt it, he didn't show it: He safely landed the plane moments later. Rob Weber said he was traveling at 170 mph Saturday afternoon, traveling toward Page Field Airport in Fort Myers, when the bird struck the window. "All of the sudden the window just explodes," Weber told local media. "I don't know if he was diving or what happened when I got him." A local NBC affiliate quoted Weber as saying that, seemingly in a split second, the window was gone and there was blood everywhere. The pilot said he never actually saw the bird come in the cockpit, and has...
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