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About 2 or 3 summers ago one of our 320s also had a fish strike into Corfu (CFU).  The runway is built on reclaimed land in a lagoon such that the end of the runway is about 5-10 meteres from the water.  Short final onto runway 35 is low over part of this lagoon.  A seabird had just caught its supper and was flying away when the plane scared it. bird drops fish that went through the 'cold' section of the engine.  luckily no damage caused, but a delay while the fan blades cleaned and checked.

Again passengers didn't believe it.