Youve heard of bird strikes...
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:52 am...well, take a look at this - http://www.nbc6.net/news/4330025/detail.html?subid=10101481
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:52 amRe: Youve heard of bird strikes...
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:55 amquick get the news to Delta. There will be dinner for passengers on the atlanta london route tonight
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:52 pmHow come they don't know whether the plane was coming or going?
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:31 pmA friend of mine was doing some of his first practice landings when a deer ran across the runway while he was landing and the instructor had to take take over and avoid the deer, sounded pretty nuts when he told me. 
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:32 pmHow come they don't know whether the plane was coming or going?
Could be an uncontrolled airport, or the reporters just haven't spoken to anyone about that part quite yet.
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:53 pmMy guess would be that they havnt actually talked to anyone who was involved yet. Does anyone know what kind of plane that is? Its sort of wierd looking.
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:59 pmMy guess would be that they havnt actually talked to anyone who was involved yet. Does anyone know what kind of plane that is? Its sort of wierd looking.
SAAB/Fairchild Metroliner...
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:24 pmThe deer was killed.
Well that's good to know.
Only pilots on board, no tellin' where it was headed to or from.
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:22 pmpoor bambi...
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:27 amD'oh! A deer!
Y'know, one way to prevent this might be to put horns on planes... I lived in a semi-rural area for a few years and the deer were like flies up there- every night I'd have some close shaves on the road. They will in fact freeze in the headlights ("hey, wait a minute, is that the sun, or -" BAM!!!), but I found that if I tooted the horn, they'd recognize that sound as meaning "danger" and get out of the way.
Of course, they're quick, and one doesn't always see them in time. And remember, everybody: if you see one deer leap across the road or runway, there's almost always at least one more behind it.
Y'know, one way to prevent this might be to put horns on planes... I lived in a semi-rural area for a few years and the deer were like flies up there- every night I'd have some close shaves on the road. They will in fact freeze in the headlights ("hey, wait a minute, is that the sun, or -" BAM!!!), but I found that if I tooted the horn, they'd recognize that sound as meaning "danger" and get out of the way.
Of course, they're quick, and one doesn't always see them in time. And remember, everybody: if you see one deer leap across the road or runway, there's almost always at least one more behind it.
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:57 pmI for one want to see cow-catchers on the front of all aircraft. Kinda like the ole steam loco's of the wild wild west.
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:41 pmhehehe, redneck style eh woody?
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:41 amVenison, anyone?
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:37 pm"Tower, Delta 921 just took off, we hit some sort of animal, don't worry about it though, already notified our caterers." 