Bird Strike

[ray66v]

When I was working in Indonesia, a 737 collided on landing with a water buffalo. Neither party did well. The buffalo was killed on impact and the 737 front landing gear collapsed. Closed the airport for a day or so as they didn't have heavy equipment to clean things up. No humans hurt.

You re-mined me of this famous photo.

 

[treman]

That is one crazy picture. That sure would make for a sore neck:laughing:

 

[IslandTractor]

You re-mined me of this famous photo.

Just found this report on the incident. It was a real mess as the small airport had no ability to get the plane moved and it was during the peak of the emergency airlift after the tsunami. Turns out they junked the 737.


By Richard Spencer
(Filed: 05/01/2005)

Relief flights into the heart of the Indonesian disaster zone were stopped yesterday when a cargo plane hit a buffalo on landing at Banda Aceh airport and crashed to a halt.

Seven aircraft with 35 medical officers, volunteers and medical supplies on board were stranded in Jakarta for 15 hours, although helicopters in Aceh were able to continue to airlift stockpiled aid.

The undercarriage of the Boeing 737, a passenger plane converted to carry cargo, was badly damaged in the crash and there was no heavy lifting equipment available in Banda Aceh to remove it from the runway.

Specialised lifting equipment had to be flown in by helicopter from Singapore.

The airport is the only way to get large supplies of relief aid into the disaster zone, although the Indonesian military are intending to try direct supply by sea to affected villages.

The airport consists of a civilian terminal building, the runway and a spur to two supply zones which are the base of the relief operation. It is surrounded by fields and roads where cows and water buffalo range freely.

It was not clear who was operating the crashed plane but it was not believed to be one of the main aid agencies.

Capt Larry Burt, the American navy officer commanding the helicopter operation, said: "This is an unbelievable impediment when there are very desperate people out there."

A spokesman for the World Food Programme said: "Every day the airport is closed is a significant delay to the humanitarian operation to bring relief to the people of Banda Aceh.

"This could have dire consequences."

About 12,500 tons of aid, intended to keep half a million people supplied for six to eight weeks, were yesterday still at Medan, the biggest Sumatran city.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

2' - 6' AGL and they save fuel taking advantage of ground effect Less FPH

(FlapsPerHour)

:thumbsup:

 

[kebo]

I had a large hen turkey hit the upper right hand side of the windshield on an older model chevy truck I owned about 12 years ago. She was standing in some tall grass at the edge of the pavement, on a secondary road out in the country. DID noteven see her until I got right up on her, she flew up and hit the windshield and pushed it in, much like the windshield on the OP's truck. Stopped and looked for the bird but never saw it, don't know if it survived or not!

As for flying bird strikes, this is good video. It's an F-16 being flown by an instructor and a student. It shows how quickly things like that can happen, as DP was referring to in his post.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN_Zl64OQEw]F16 bird strike and eject - YouTube[/ame]

 

[brokenknee]

A week or so ago , someone posted pictures of a turkey stuck in the windshield of a Coke cola truck . Here is my story .

06:00 and cruising north on I-5 near Willows , CA. , about halfway between Sacramento and Redding Saturday morning . Foggy , maybe 1/8 mile visibility ,

And obviously dark , when just to left of windshield center post , seen something about 3 feet above the hood headed towards passenger side . Split second later it

Crashed into passenger windshield , 6" from top and about 12" from far right side . Windshield shattered !!! :shocked::shocked:

Object : A Duck or another type dark feathered bird .

Result : 1 dead bird and pictures below show windshield .


Pushed the glass in about 2" at point of impact . In Aeronautical terms : The Bird was not cleared for instrument approach , Thus it's glide path on final approach was to low and should of aborted .

If bird had been in the Navy , Landing Officer would of been giving a red light and waved it's dumb rear end off .

And to top it off , Had a Dentist appointment once I got home and Dentist asked if I kept the Duck ?? Most likely would of been arrested as if I had stopped , Law enforcement would of received calls of some nut case standing on the side of the freeway kicking a dead bird all over the place .


Fred H.

At least your CVSA sticker had expired. :laughing:

 

[Taylortractornut]

I used to work at the local cow patty airport here in the 90's as a kid after school. One of the regular visitors landed and the airport wa out of gas. I had several clan drums and I drove the man and his wife 25 miles to the next little air port. I got him a few hunder gallons of fuel. I made a buddy then. He ould fly in to visit family and He asked if I wanted to ride. I tried to get as much time in the air as I could. He had an MU2. That was a mean plane. Landing one evening we almost hit a 3 people on horses.

THe place didnt have a fence and the manager had a bunch of drunks on horse back out there.


A crop duster friend of mine had a 300 Air tractor, an Ag Cat turbo prop, and a Dromadier on a forestry fertilization project. He hit a goat with the Dromadier and tore the airfoils up on the hopper unit.

The Ag Cat had hit a buzzard and coated the entire plane in the nastiest smelling stuff on the planet. THe air tractor went through a cloud of black birds and the bad part of that is the jugs on the radial engen got plucked with chunks O bird. Where these chunks landed it over heated the cylinder jugs in those spots. I think 5 of the 9 cylinders were hot spotted or gaulded.

 

[NC tractor driver]

Speaking of duck strikes, this photo always quacked me up.

 

[JDTank]

Ah yes, animal strikes are maddening for us truckers.

I remember when I had JUST put my brand new, expensive, $100 each, CB antennas on my 2004 Kenworth W900L. They were Predator 10-K antennas. With the whip they were 6 feet tall. I had them bent forward on an angle because I like that look, and also to decrease the height a little bit.

I didn't make it one hour down the road and as luck would have it, a bird caught my passenger side one and broke the whip right off, and then the bird hit my stack on that side. Luckily the stack wasn't damaged, just had to buy a new whip, but still, it's no fun.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Ah yes, animal strikes are maddening for us truckers.

I remember when I had JUST put my brand new, expensive, $100 each, CB antennas on my 2004 Kenworth W900L. They were Predator 10-K antennas. With the whip they were 6 feet tall. I had them bent forward on an angle because I like that look, and also to decrease the height a little bit.

I didn't make it one hour down the road and as luck would have it, a bird caught my passenger side one and broke the whip right off, and then the bird hit my stack on that side. Luckily the stack wasn't damaged, just had to buy a new whip, but still, it's no fun.

Breaker 1-9 this here's the "duck"