Queens, NY – Mid-Air Collision Between Goose and Plane Leaves Jet with Bloody Nose

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    An enormous dent, along with blood and feathers, defaces a Delta jet at La GuardiaQueens, NY – A Delta Air Lines shuttle flight from Boston got a bloody nose, courtesy of a bird flying near La Guardia Airport.

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    The latest midair collision between a commercial airliner and a fowl happened just before 6 p.m. as the Boeing MD-80, which had taken off from Logan Airport at 4:30 p.m., struck the bird on final approach to the airport, an FAA spokeswoman said.

    The crew of Flight 1393 “followed all established procedures and landed without incident,” Delta spokesman Kent Landers said. Nobody was hurt.

    An airport worker who saw the plane taxi to the gate said people on the runway were stunned.

    “There was blood on the nose of the plane all the way up to the windshield,” he said.

    “There was a big dent. I saw feathers attached to the plane.”

    The worker said the pilot was “amazed” when he got out of the plane to inspect the damage.

    “He said he heard it when he was coming in for a landing. He thought it was a goose.”

    Geese have been blamed for several recent collisions with planes. In the most notorious case, they brought down US Airways Flight 1459, which made a miraculous safe Hudson River landing.

    Planes from La Guardia and Newark have each had nine bird strikes that have done substantial damage between 2000 and 2008, while Kennedy leads the nation with 30 substantial strikes, according to the FAA.


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    KAPORE
    KAPORE
    14 years ago

    Did all these people on the plane ‘yoitze’ KAPORES? was the chicken kosher?

    babushka
    babushka
    14 years ago

    Can’t wait to hear from PETA! We should stop flyinf for the sake of the birds!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I think we should ban all flight at once! How dear we intrude on the airspace of those innocent birds!

    what
    what
    14 years ago

    So PETA what now? Are you going to protest the airline industry? No more planes? I say the city hire some professional hunters and take out all these wild birds. If even one human life is lost because we hold back from killing these birds,because we’re afraid of what pETA will say or do, then WE don’t belong on this earth.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    whoa! this aint no bird! they must have hit an elephant with wings. no goose can cause such damage. i wonder what bird it could have been. Bald eagles have been sighted here but this must have been a popa bear eagle. man.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Those geese again ? Send them back to canada.

    jo
    jo
    14 years ago

    peta is a creature adoring group. they prefer living with the birds cows etc, in barns, chicken coups, etc. well Y don’t we give them wings and let them fly around kennedy airport and perhaps they can meet their green friends before feeling together what the nebech bird felt when colliding with a plane. after all they need the been there done that slogan.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The plane got a bloody nose, and what did mother goose get?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Rabosai, this is not a laughing matter. If the authorities don’t start intervening to thin the flocks people are going to die

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I would love to have a job being a sniper and shooting these birds. maybe a 50 cal with a scope and lser…

    5T Resident
    5T Resident
    14 years ago

    If I had been on that plane, I would be bentching goimel asap. If that goose had struck an engine instead of the nose, the plane could have crashed, given how big the bird apparently was.

    11 u dont know guns
    11 u dont know guns
    14 years ago

    50 cal with a scope and lser, will not only take out the bird and his family but also the plane behind it. lol… 59 cal is meant for a tank!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I guess for all the people on that plane, the “Goose was not cooked”

    5T Resident
    5T Resident
    14 years ago

    I agree with #10 , this is no laughing matter. People have died on flights where planes have collided with birds.

    me
    me
    14 years ago

    I’m telling you, moslem sleeper cells are training suicide birds to fly into american aircraft. You heard it here first