Anybody ever have a bird strike?

[rbrady]

I almost ran into a flock of snow geese a little north of Lambert the other day. Scared the b'jesus out of me. They were up pretty high. I'm wondering how a 172 would handle an impact with a five pound goose at 100 knots? I've seen the movie 'The Edge' and the outcome was not good....

 

[GogglesPisano]

I've heard of one. But the President ordered them back to work, citing "vital national interests" or some such.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

No - no one has ever had a bird strike.

Woop woop - Sarcasm sarcasm.

Yeah, and the last one was a seagull at 250kts that hit the windscreen right in front of my head. Justabout scared the dookie out of me. What a mess. (On the windshield, that is.)

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Hit either a dove or pigeon on landing. They were on the runway and flew straight up into our path. Dang things exploded like water balloons and on the taxi in, the local hawks were already cleaning up the mess.

 

[PunchTheClown]

I've had them in a few airplanes including a 172 (hit a hawk) and the CRJ (no idea what it was). Nothing happened to the CRJ, just sounded like someone hit the nose with a hammer. The 172 on the other hand had one hell of a dent in the cowling.

 

[Guitar Guy]

I've heard of one. But the President ordered them back to work, citing "vital national interests" or some such.

Doesn't the RLA pretty much make it impossible for birds to strike?

 

[CA1900]

Hit a goose on takeoff in a Beech 1900 a few years back. Thought we missed him (didn't see any damage out the windows), until we opened the door at our next stop and saw the wing just outboard of the left engine. A dent the size of a basketball, flattening the leading edge of the wing back about 5 inches to the spar, and a couple of bloody talons caught in the deice boot. Yuck!

 

[VeeOne]

I took out a flock of pigeons once while on an FAA Type ride. There was no where to go and I had no choice but to wipe them out. The FAA examiner didn't seem to care, and actually laughed at it. We were landing into the sun on a simulated single engine approach. Still got the type but I had to open the side window and poke my head out for the taxi in.....sorta like Ace Ventura.

 

[Flyin Tony]

My buddy hit a bird in the middle of the night over dag in his mooney. His plane was mess up bad. Hit the cowling and just about took the side off. If it hit his windscreen he would have been history.

 

[xjlifer]

Hit a goose in a DO-228. The prop spun it thru a window..... guts ended up on a pax face. Story was on Paul Harvey news.....guess that was my 15 minutes of fame.

 

[rbrady]

Good Day

 

[TWheat61]

Had a flock of Geese take off in front of me a couple of years ago in IAD while over the threshold. Took out about 3, no damage just a bunch of dings with stuck feathers.

Also, took out a large hawk over Pit a few months ago going about 250 kts., hit the SAT probe, again no damage just stuck feathers.

 

[CoATP]

Took a large canadian goose (went eh-eh instead of honk-honk) through the prop of a navajo and something on the flap cover of a CRJ. Large hawk on the wing of a 182. First two cases where a true airplane 1 Bird 0 score. Third case VERY large dent in the leading edge so I'll give the ex-bird some points for effort.

 

[rjacobs]

Hit one on short final in the EMB, hit right above the FO side windshield. Didnt get up close and look at it so I dont know if it dented, but lots of blood.

 

[flatspin7]

Took a LBF (Little Brown F-er) in the Ca window on take off the other day. It was my leg so no sweat, but he had to stare it at the whole flight!

Eeeeewwww

 

[CA1900]

Took a LBF (Little Brown F-er)...

Sorry, thought you were talking about Guam for a second. imp:

 

[DrProc]

Skewered a bat with a pitot tube one night going into SAV...was still there when we landed.

 

[CoolSidePillow]

I hit a gaggle of geese departing LGA at night.......... had a few oven roasters when we landed.........yummy

 

[CoolSidePillow]

I struck a pigeon with a baseball bat..... does that count?

 

[Bill Mostellar]

I went back through my Military Logbook - at least 5 birdstrikes in a C-21 (Lear 35). I hit everything from swallows to Red Tail Hawks. The engines at them up and spit them out.

I wish you success!
William

 

[CA1900]

I struck a pigeon with a baseball bat..... does that count?

HA!

I'm not sure why, but that reminded me of this old ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzbMcsrK-tw

 

[RemoveB4Flght]

4 total in small single engine props, including one particularly un-darwinian species of fowl called a sandhill crane which will not yield it's place on the runway even in the face of a lumbering cessna.... splat

 

[Soverytired]

Ingested a turkey into the right engine of a 1900 while landing.

What a god-awful mess. Gibblets inside the engine, and the runway looked like a pillow factory exploded!

 

[rbrady]

Ingested a turkey into the right engine of a 1900 while landing.

What a god-awful mess. Gibblets inside the engine, and the runway looked like a pillow factory exploded!

The dang thing is lucky it's still alive!

 

[V-1]

Hit a Canadian Goose once on takeoff at about 200 feet and 150 knots...dead center of the CRJ radome. Shoved the radome into the radar dish and bent the dish. Radome had cracks running in about seven different directions.

Not a drop of blood or feather anywhere to be found on the aircraft.

 

[rjacobs]

The dang thing is lucky it's still alive!

What is the 1900?

 

[flyinhigh6165]

Had a bird strike back when i was flight instructing. It happened to be a discovery flight for a possible new student. The bird hit the fuel vent and actually made my engine caugh all the way back to landing. Meanwhile, his gf in the backseat was puking...got to love those Disco flights in the Summer time in Dallas. The guy never started lessons either.

 

[stein429]

Munched a crow and a seagull

Sucked the crow down the right engine in an F-111E back in '82 just as we were touching down to land at Upper Heyford. Sucked up the seagull right after takeoff from MacDill in a Viper; swung quickly around to land and shutdown at EOR. Otherwise uneventful!

 

[Peealot]

Landing north into CEC there is a large rock out in the water that is a haven for all kinds of birds. We were in a "Bro" going in at night. Standard stuff. About 500' AGL the landing lights light up a flock of pelicans(?). Funny part is the one we hit let out a stream of Sh!t I have never seen come out of any animal, ever! It had to be at least 3-4 feet long!!! Bad part was the prop clipped the bird and mechanicaled(sp) the plane on a local trip with none of the crew bringing overnight stuff. If it wasnt so funny, we probably would have been pissed.

Oh, and almost added coyote to the list a few weeks ago on 35L in DEN.

 

[dav8or]

http://www.avweb.com/newspics/birdstrikecanada.wmv

Check out this video. You can see the bird streak in at the start.

I've hit some tweeties but never any damage, but I did fly a 172 through a bee swarm. could barely see out the front windsheild to land and all the leading edges had splattered bees still trying to sting.