Video shows seagull flying into teen's face on Jersey Shore amusement park ride

A viral video shows a seagull slamming into a Pennsylvania teen's face as she hurtles into the air on a Jersey Shore amusement park ride.

The close encounter of the bird kind happened to 13-year-old Kiley Holman on July 6 as she was riding the Springshot on Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey, according to NBC Philadelphia.

An 18-second-clip shows one of the white and gray birds — famed on the Jersey Shore for aggressively snatching food from tourists — plowing headfirst into the teen.

The bird is momentarily flattened from the force of the slingshot-style amusement park ride as it slammed into the safety harness buckling Holman into the slingshot cage, its beak stuck on her neck.

"It was going the opposite way and came right back at me,” Holman told NBC Philadelphia.

Holman can then be seen in the video calmly pulling the gull off and tossing it into the air, where it flew away unharmed.

"I didn't want to fall out of the ride so I waited for it to spin over once and then I quickly grabbed it and threw it off," she said.

Holman told NBC Philadelphia that she "always wanted to catch a seagull."

"I guess that's my way of catching it," she said.