Bird Strike Forces Plane To Return To DIA

By Kelly Werthmann
DENVER (CBS4)– Airplanes and birds may do their best to share the sky, but they don’t always succeed. Passengers en route from Denver to San Francisco learned that the hard way Monday morning.
“We were very close to just getting up in the air when we heard a loud crunching kind of noise,” Meg Brook, passenger on Virgin America Airlines Flight 865, told CBS4.
The San Francisco-bound flight took off from Denver International Airport just before noon but r