By Xinhua
Rio De Janeiro : A pilot remained unconscious for 25 seconds while flying, after a flock of vultures hit the twin-engine plane in Sao Paulo.
Luckily, the autopilot was flying the aircraft and, when pilot Carlos Willian Pereira Fraga, 22, woke up, he managed to land on Jundiai Airport, 65 km from the capital of the state of Sao Paulo, media reported Monday.
The impact smashed the cockpit's window and Fraga immediately fell unconscious. He was taken to a hospital in Jundiai, where he underwent two surgeries.
The pilot lost his left eye. He was transferred to his hometown Goiania, in the Mid-west, where he will receive an ocular prosthetic.
A physician and a nurse were also on the flight, whose destination was Jau, in the Sao Paulo countryside. They were not injured in the accident.