Except it kept flying and made a safe landing. It would be completely possible for the crew to not even notice that impact if they didn’t happen to see it and only discover it on landing.
A small Cessna or helicopter are a different story but for a single impact from a drone of that size to cause a CL-415 to crash is extremely unlikely. Losing and engine or going through the windshield and injuring a pilot are definitely possibilities (although I would be surprised if the windshield wasn’t rated for some gnarly birdstrikes due to its low altitude based mission) and it’s still dangerous as fuck but planes like that are built to withstand far worse and have sufficient redundancies to keep flying safely in the event of an impact like that.
Except it kept flying and made a safe landing. It would be completely possible for the crew to not even notice that impact if they didn’t happen to see it and only discover it on landing.
A small Cessna or helicopter are a different story but for a single impact from a drone of that size to cause a CL-415 to crash is extremely unlikely. Losing and engine or going through the windshield and injuring a pilot are definitely possibilities (although I would be surprised if the windshield wasn’t rated for some gnarly birdstrikes due to its low altitude based mission) and it’s still dangerous as fuck but planes like that are built to withstand far worse and have sufficient redundancies to keep flying safely in the event of an impact like that.