Anybody ever have a bird strike?

[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.

 

[Bluestreak]

Once in a 414 on a night visual,I happened to glance out the side window just as an owl went into the left engine.The strobe flashed just a microsecond before it hit the prop-kinda like stop motion.Took off the prop de-ice boot on one blade.While on downwind for 35 at PHL one night-hit the windshield so hard the cover fell off the PBE.One fine day at BUF,just coming over the hump in the runway (5?),a big azz turkey rotated right as I did-took out the lights on the nosegear of the 145-no time to do anything but say "aw CRAP!".Friend of mine was inbound on the Expressway 31 LGA,put the gear down at DIALS and the F/O had time to yell "BIRDS!" as the landing lights came on.Took a few in the engines,took out some blades,landed ok.

 

[Bristol]

Hit a pigeon in a twin otter last year at Scenic. We were on short final and all the Japanese tourist saw and heard it. After we landed, every person had to take a photo of the dented wing.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Took a pigeon on the windshield short final in a 210. Big thump, little mess, no problem. Another guy took a hawk while hauling ass on a visual. He was probably doing ~200, but just happened to have bent over to grab his eggroll from the deck (or so I heard it). Bird went through the windshield, through the cabin, out the back window, and wrapped around the tail. There was blood everywhere. I think the guy quit, but the plane still bears a "kill" mark.

 

[CoolSidePillow]

I got hit in the face by a bumblebee on my crotch rocket at about 110mph...125 kts for you ERAU dorks
Oh and I also struck a stray cat in the head with a shovel and about a year ago I struck an RJ FO geek in the side of the head with a Heineken bottle.

 

[CoolSidePillow]

I struck me head on the dashboard of my car once when I was reaching to pick up my joint before it burned a whole in carpet

 

[timeless]

I've hit a bird with a Seminole, but my favorite bird strike occoured in a Peterbuilt.

I hit a bird with the big wind deflector on top of the cab. I was passing under a bridge at the time and I saw the bird bounce off the under side of the bridge in my mirror.

 

[xjgearbtch]

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

 

[pgcfii2002]

No, but I once punched a bird in the face........does that count?

 

[FlySacto]

Who hasn't had a bird strike!?!?! So far tweety birds, pidgeons, and recently a small owl on landing. I hope to keep from getting the goose some day. When I was in the B-1 program, we lost an aircraft and half a crew to a single pelican in Colorado. Kind of the "Golden BB" scenario where the bird slid along the side of the aircraft and punched in above the intakes of the #3 and #4 engine tearing out hydro lines, fuel lines, and electrical. Within two minutes they were down. They later reinforced the area on the remaining fleet.

 

[md83drvr]

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.