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An Air Canada flight had a “bit of a hairy landing” at the Ottawa Airport early Thursday after the plane hit a flock of birds.

An Air Canada spokeswoman said that flight AC342, with 170 passengers on board, which was scheduled to arrive from Vancouver at 12:46 a.m., made contact with birds on the descent and “as per our operating procedures airport services were called.”

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“The flight landed safely and no one was hurt,” she added.

The plane, which made it to the gate at 1:22 a.m., is now in maintenance.

A passenger tweeted “hats off to the Air Canada pilots (and) crew for keeping everything under control” adding that the flight landed safely then sat on the runway for a while as a safety precaution before being towed to the gate.