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]

 

[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"

 

[dmccarty]

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

:thumbsup: Pretty funny but you have to a certain age to get the reference. Just seems like yesterday...

Later,
Dan

 

[jonyyuma]

Oh, Dan and now the time is really flying by.. Rubber duck out here, and flying low..10-4?

 

[Treemonkey1000]

:thumbsup: Pretty funny but you have to a certain age to get the reference. Just seems like yesterday...

Later,
Dan

I am glad you picked up on that. CW McCall sang that and I am plenty old enough to have lived through the CB radio days. Maybe I should have a CB on the tractor.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Did anyone see this on the news last week.

Wild turkey slams through windshield of N.J. school bus | wcsh6.com

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[FredH]

" At least your CVSA sticker had expired. "

Thats Funny .:thumbsup: That for sure ticks me off when I get inspected and a week later for what ever reason have to have the windshield replaced . Usually only get inspected once a year , even with prepass , I sometimes have to go in to a scale , but even without a sticker , have yet to be pulled in .


Fred H.

 

[petes]

Back in highschool I had an early sportbike (Yamaha 500cc). I was tooling down a back country road doing 80 or so (I bet we were all just as dumb when we were 16 or 17) when a duck took off out of a ditch in front of me. Fortunately I was paying attention and saw him in time to , well, duck!. We arrived simulatneously at the same geographical coordinates, but fortunately 2 or 3 inches of altitude separated us both from certain death - Him frantically to gain altitude and pick up his feet, and me trying to fit my entire helmeted (see... no as dumb as I could have been!) head and shoulders into the little space between my speedometer and fuel fill cap. He missed taking my head off by mere inches and fractions of a second.... And so I lived on to do many other stupid things.

 

[k0ua]

Back in highschool I had an early sportbike (Yamaha 500cc). I was tooling down a back country road doing 80 or so (I bet we were all just as dumb when we were 16 or 17) when a duck took off out of a ditch in front of me. Fortunately I was paying attention and saw him in time to , well, duck!. We arrived simulatneously at the same geographical coordinates, but fortunately 2 or 3 inches of altitude separated us both from certain death - Him frantically to gain altitude and pick up his feet, and me trying to fit my entire helmeted (see... no as dumb as I could have been!) head and shoulders into the little space between my speedometer and fuel fill cap. He missed taking my head off by mere inches and fractions of a second.... And so I lived on to do many other stupid things.

I caught a raincrow aka. brown thrush square in the fact with a full face shield helmet one evening. Pretty good size bird, I was doing about 70 on a nice straight stretch of country road. Knocked me silly and fell over backwards still on the seat and backrest for a few seconds, when I straightned up the Honda 450 had slowed to maybe 20 or 30 mph. I rolled on throttle and went on. Could have been worse I feel very lucky the bike went straight those few seconds that my brain was doing a reboot and that I did not have control of it. I am sure it was worse for the bird.

James K0UA

 

[Artisan]

Watch as a flock of small birds even take flight to get out of
the way of this out of control Apache chopper pilot, supposedly
executing a "Return to Target Maneuver" , alas boys will be boys...:laughing:

CLICK HERE

 

[ray66v]

That was a poorly executed helicopter crop dusting turn. Since my heli instructor was a crop duster, it's the first maneuver I was shown.

From a medium speed pass, 5' above the ground, you pull up steeply and allow the forward speed to bleed completely off. Then, you rotate the tail 180 degrees, and return to spray the next row.

If you do it right, you barely pull any g's, ...and you don't hit the ground. :thumbsup: