Anybody ever have a bird strike?

[JediNein]

Nine birds and a five point buck. Top that Nancy.

Almost a double ace here. The one that woulda made 10 didn't count as we didn't hit it, it hit us. We were landing in a Warrior, heard a loud thunk, and on inspection found the bloody mess on top of the trailing edge of the flap. Our 'super' Warrior had been rear-ended by a sparrow!

I let the Jeep behind me hit the six-point buck, does that count? Mangled the bejeebers outta the Jeep, too. Deer 0 Jeep 0.

 

[rickair7777]

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

That's LBFM.

I got a goose on approach in the pacific northwest...needed a new flap (on a big RJ).

 

[KingDriver]

Hit a bird right at Vr one time in a beechjet. It splattered all over the window and it sort of freeze dried on the window while flying at FL 390. We asked the line guy to clean it off while we went to lunch and he was still working on it when we got back. He got a nice tip!

 

[CA1900]

That's LBFM.

Heh heh heh... a CAL pilot jumpseating on one of my flights told me all about those. Almost made me want to move to Guam!

:beer:

 

[Guitar Guy]

I got hit in the face by a bumblebee on my crotch rocket at about 110mph...125 kts for you ERAU dorks.

I never went to ERAU, but I don't think 110 mph is equal to 125 knots...

 

[Illini Pilot]

Almost hit a bald eagle about a year ago going into a small airport (C75) in central IL on the Illinois River. I was with a student on a downwind and I told her "watch out for that bird, lets climb at little." Before you know it, that eagle was right under our wing, with the look of death in it's eyes. I still feel like that thing and I stared at each other for a good 3-4 seconds (it was probably going just as fast as us in our 152!).

 

[acarpe3448]

I had a bad one the day after the Comair Crash this year. Taking off from BWI, fully loaded in an MD88. Just as we hit VR my nose came of the ground and we started getting the worst compressor stall I have ever heard. In addition the plane was shaking violently! The Captain started to reduce power on the right engine, followed by autothrottle advance on the left engine. With right engine at idle, and left engine advancing the left engine started to compressor stall and shake the aircraft violently! F/As called the cockpit and reported smoke in the cabain. All of these events took place before 300'. We felt like the plane would fall apart if the left engine continued. The captain retarded the left engine just enough to lessen the vibration. We were very low, very slow and could not climb or gain A/S very quickly. We made a very wide circle back to land at BWI at around 500'. Upon landing we found birds all over the landing gear!. The right wing was covered in blood and feathers, and it looked like at least a dozen strikes to that wing. The right engine was just destroyed. The forward fan had every blade either missing, bent, or curled under. Fragments from the blades puched numerous holes in cowling but it was not uncontained. On the left side we found 2 blades broken and missing. It appears this flock was around 30-50 feet in the air. On the takeoff roll just as the Captain called VR my eyes naturally transitioned to the PFD for pitch guidence so I did not see the flock at all! The birds were starlings(sp?)

 

[stein429]

How about a dog strike!

Yup, hit a mangy mutt while taking off from the Russian built runway at Beni Suef, Egypt. I was just about to rotate and this sandy colored looking mutt appears almost instantly in front of the aircraft. Schwacked it good with the nose gear! Left the gear down, popped up to Low Key and did a quick throttle check; everything worked fine so I burned down just a little fuel circling at High Key and landed uneventfully. Boy, was that a bloody mess! One of my IPs at MacDill struck a warthog (a real one, not an A-10) on landing roll at a Pakistani airfield; delivering "their" jets!

 

[Soverytired]

Flock of geese to a Dash-8, took off the FO windshield wiper, 4 5" diameter dents in the nose, damage to boots on left wing and tail. Only reamains were on the FO windshiled and 1 bird on the left engine between the intake and prop spinner.

The company had to call Dehavilland to get an engineering okay to ferry the aircraft.

No offense, but the Dash-8 was the first airplane I ever flew that was purportedly certified to take a bird strike in the tail.

I hit one in the dash once . . . some kind of endangered species falcon. It actually got caught in the windshield and we watched it struggle for awhile as it flapped in the wind.

Mechanics exact quote: "Hey, it's still warm!"

 

[JediNein]

I had a bad one the day after the Comair Crash this year.

The upholstery cleaning bill for that must have been staggering.