What began as a routine flight turned into a harrowing emergency when Captain Jason Vance was forced to make an unplanned landing after a massive bird strike disabled one of his engines. The rough touchdown on a remote airstrip near an isolated lake was only the beginning of the story. Inside the cargo hold, investigators found what the birds had apparently been pursuing all along: dozens of stolen exotic bird eggs destined for illegal trafficking networks.
Captain Jason Vance had no reason to expect anything unusual when he took off. The skies were calm, and the few birds visible near the aircraft were not considered a threat — a common…
