Fresh footage from the cockpit of a military jet has shown the moment it strikes a vulture before it plummets to the ground.
The clip shows the enormous bird of prey flying into the Navy T-45C Goshawk aircraft and being swallowed into one of its engines.
This forced the two pilots to eject themselves from the military jet as their plane dropped out of the sky, crashed into houses and burst into flames in Texas, US.
"We are trying to make it to the runway," a pilot's voice is heard saying over the radio.
"Yeah, we're not gonna make it. We're gonna eject," the pilot said seconds later as the plane rapidly descended toward Lake Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, below.
The jet's pilot and a student pilot were conducting a routine training flight when the bird hit, causing one pilot to be badly burnt in some power lines with his parachute.
Another was found not far away from the site of the crash.
The US Navy confirmed the student pilot survived the horrific ordeal and received treatment for his condition.
Lake Worth Fire Chief Ryan Arthur said it "could have been much worse", although up to 70 residents were affected by the crash while several homes received minor damage, although none of them were hit directly.
Lake Worth Police Officer Christian Myers was one of the first to respond to the chaotic scene that morning one year ago and said the pilot who was electrocuted after becoming entangled in powerlines was in a haunted state.
He then visited him three days later in the hospital.
"For my closure and peace of mind I needed to talk to him again because the state I saw him in was no state you want to see anyone in," Mr Myers said.
The pair then formed a friendship and decided to release the cockpit video to give them both some closure.
Mr Myers said the video has helped him piece together what happened.
He continued: "To think a bird could cause so much chaos. It's just a God thing. A total act of God that no one lost their life."
