Take a look at these pictures of bird strikes hitting a jet nose.
If a bird can do that there is no way the nose would have kept its shape column or no column
And if the nose does not hit a column, that's about as bad as it would have been. From a distance, it would have seemed to be a nose, sure enough. Like anyone would have had the sight and time to be picky about appearances.
Take a look at these pictures of bird strikes hitting a jet nose. If a bird can do that there is no way the nose would have kept its shape column or no column
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=bird%20strike%20nose%20of%20jet&tbs=imgo:1
And if the nose does not hit a column, that's about as bad as it would have been. From a distance, it would have seemed to be a nose, sure enough. Like anyone would have had the sight and time to be picky about appearances.