From engine hits to near misses, explore five dramatic birdstrikes and how skilled pilots brought aircraft safely home.

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and more expensive to maintain.

Flying near a waterway about 900 feet above the ground, a helicopter pilot heard a loud bang. A bird had struck the aircraft. The carcass of a white-bellied sea eagle became wedged between the pilot ...