Boris Badenov
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Same source (ie. Not Me), but that must have been a suspiciously bloodless Condor, if accurate, etc. etc.
FedEx engine fire on departure EWR
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Same source (ie. Not Me), but that must have been a suspiciously bloodless Condor, if accurate, etc. etc.
Pilot Fighter
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Birds aren’t real.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Pilot Fighter
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Perhaps, the operators of the anti-aircraft bird cannon failed to let the bird thaw before firing.
knot4u
Repeat Offender
I did find a red tailed hawk who unfortunately found itself in one of the flap fairings during a preflight on a Global Express one time. I'm entirely uncertain regarding how long that bird was a passenger. I'm going to assume it got caught up in aviation on the previous flight but I might be wrong and that bird might've been a world traveler.
Burrito
Position And Hold My Beer
Honest question: What's the most interesting world traveler you've found on a walkaround? Couple years back the tech guys in BOS pulled a live iguana out of the left main landing gear bay doors when something was making an odd not-quite-PTO-barking-noise taxiing in. That got a good gathering of rampers.
PSA had a CRJ700 named Bambi after taking out a deer passing V1 in Charlotte.
PSA had a CRJ700 named Bambi after taking out a deer passing V1 in Charlotte.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Sluggo
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Sadly Bambi was the aircraft that went down in DCA.
In my regional days we had several squirrels that climbed into the gear bay which grounded the plane until we confirmed the squirrel left.
I believe we had a raccoon take a trip to Germany one time, that was interesting.
Also had a bat fly into the cabin when they were hooking up the jet bridge somewhere in Europe. That one was never found.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
I broke the gear retraction system on a Seminole by trying to bring the gear up with a snake (that I didn't know was there) curled around the left main gear.
Years before Bambi was Bambi, I put a large crow through the radar dome of 709 coming out of Charlotte. Also I jammed a pretty big bird into the horizontal stab of a -200 on the way in to HPN. Damn near tore the yoke out of my hands.
Only other notable hitchhikers were about a billion mosquitoes that were in a -200 that had been sitting with its door open on the ramp in Greenville Mississippi for a day or so after coming out of the paint shop there. Flew down from DAY at about 11 at night to drop off a different plane to get painted (and almost tore the wing off on a unmarked concrete pole in the middle of the ramp) and then wandered over to our bug infested ride home. Also, they'd never dumped the lav when the plane was flown down a week earlier and the inside was pretty terrible. Remember just wandering into the pool of darkness past the right wing and going to the bathroom out there instead of daring to open the lav door.
Got bit about a hundred times while I waited for the APU to get going so I could turn on the packs and get the gasper vents open to blow enough air around to push the bugs out of the cockpit. There is a slightly better than non zero percent chance that @DeltaAlphaNovember was the FO on that but I can't remember... I think the guy was getting furloughed in a few weeks and was an army rotor guy, but it was a long time ago.
NovemberEcho
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Do most bird strikes involve a fire and thousands of gallons of high pressure water being sprayed into the engine though? Or foam or whatever
Nope. Not all of them end up in the Hudson either.
Wardogg
Meat Popsicle
I don’t know if I can handle all this speculation.
NovemberEcho
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I was more inferring the blood being washed away by the fire hoses
I was inferring, pre-coffee, that this one took birds in both motors and was able to get it back around the patch. Also why airplanes should have three engines, minimum.
mightynimbus
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Time to inventory crew I-Pads
Pilot Fighter
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While we were airing out the cabin of our 4000 in Azerbaijan, we had a cat sneak aboard. Must have been pretty comfy because we were almost to RUH before it vocally requested a tour of the flight deck.
A Filipino ramper was happy to take the cat, not sure if the cat was intended as a companion or dinner.
Wardogg
Meat Popsicle
Yeah good point. Might be the case.
Skåning
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An Alaskan Guppy hit a bear landing a few years back
Alaska Airlines jet hits bear on Yakutat Airport runway
The Boeing 737 was slowing down when the flight crew noticed a sow and a cub crossing the runway, according to a statement from Alaska Airlines.
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