Anyone have any incidents with animals?

I'm not sure where this occured but its pretty graphic. :ooh:
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I've taken out a small bird once in a Single engine, without incident. (Except the mess left for the AME :cool: )


-Chris

Besides the customary bugs and birds, I've got a badger and a dog on the scoresheet.:E

Too many rabbits to mention, several birds, a cat, (survived), a badger (dead as a doornail), two skunks :yuk: , and a £25,000 horse. Several near misses with assorted owls and deer as well.

Fedex MD11 landing at Stansted, ran over a fox with the centre main gear. Saw a rabbit run in front through the lights, hottly persued by the fox, squished and mangled in the axle unit.

no animals, but took out a balloon launch once!

You know... where kids at school all let their helium balloons go at the same time and they all have tage on them, whosever lands the furthest from the school (sometimes states away) wins a prize later.


well, they let em go and they got up to 6500feet where I was, mowed over a few of em... poor guys. Not good for the plane either. Reported it to ATC, wonder how that PIREP looked!...


PIREP 15:05Z 11/19/03
IND UA /OV IND090020/TM 1505/FL065/TP C172/SK SKC/RM MULTIPLE BALLOONS THROUGH FL085 MVG NERLY

I collected a kangaroo at 0200 about 50 km south of Coonabarabran (look at a map of NSW). Smashed the front left headlight/spotlight.

Reached in thru the driver's window to turn on the lights to test - nothing. Drove the 50 ks to Coona with the hazard lights the only illumination - fortunately there was a solid white line marking the "verge" so I straddled that all the way. Slow trip.

Got to Coona where there were at least some street lights for illumination. Cleared the bits of glass and plastic and decided "Oh well, may as well continue". Got back in started motor, turned light stalk and there was LIGHT.

Then I realised that the lights only worked when the ignition was on.

A buddy of mine collected a roo on the way to to Roma. He was driving a Pajero with a huge Roo-bar on the front, and reckons he was probably going a little too fast.

He was picking fur and stuff out of the radiator for weeks.

At an airshow a couple of years ago at CFB Cold Lake they had pictures of CF-18s that had hit deer on the runway, the blood left on the runway, but thankfully not the deer themselves. They sure did a number on the intakes and landing gear doors.

Personally I haven't hit anything while flying yet, but there a couple of hawks that like to circle on the aproach and departure paths where I fly. It'll only be a matter of time before some one hits one. Driving on the other hand I've hit a gopher or two.

goates

Hit a juvenile Black Headed Gull on take off in the Chippy last year. There was a flock of them on the (grass) runway 27, and they lifted off as each aeroplane took off and landed back on afterwards. As I approached, tail up, they took off and flew off to the sides - all except one who set off on a heading of 270.

He couldn't outfly the mighty Chippy and came through the prop. No damage to the aeroplane but one sliced gull.

SSD

3 birds
5 chickens with 4 tires
1 raccoon
4 rabbits
1 skunk
4 squirrels
1 possum
4 frogs
2 snakes
1 turtle
1 groundhog
3 dogs
2 cats
1 coyote
33....with one car..I'm so ashamed
:(
ok, one of the cats climbed up in my motor.....none were my fault, they all ran out in front of my car

Took out a cow once....I also hit one with my car! Wrote of the front end, drivers door & smaller damage further along the side. AUD9500 damage. Worst thing was, it shat itself as I hit it, leaving a healthy amount of fertiliser all over the drivers side of the car!!

When it was towed to the smash repairer, the tow truck driver was berated for not bringing the cow in as well, seems they'd planned a BBQ!!!!:yuk:

You only took it out once. I married it.

I had a mate who had borrowed my Ute one night call me because he had just hit a pig and it was in a bad way. Although concerned for the state of my truck, I told him first things first, put it out its misery and drag it off the side of the road. After hearing two rifle shots and a series of dragging noises, he came back on the line and said 'right, what about the motorbike'?

I'll get my coat.

Volvo 340's have a tibular crossmember at the exact height of a rabbit's head ....


go on, ask me how I know .......

The Pakistan Air Force managed to hit a moving TRAIN in Peshawar. Only airport i know of with an operational train line across the runway.


Mutt.

I know I have mentioned this before but it is nice so....

A US police Learjet hit a moose as it was taking off from a runway in Oregon. A Canadian Mountie, on an exchange, kicked out the door of the aircraft as it caught fire and was credited with saving the occupants.

Asked to comment the Mountie's captain said "His a big fellow and we're very proud of him. It's just lucky they did not hit the moose after they were in the air."

Either RNAS Eglinton or RAF Limavady used to have, maybe still does if they are still there, a railway running across/ along part of the main runway.

One of my previous companies machines took out an elk in canada. Engineers painted a WW2 style kill marking under the Captains side window.
Got painted out in the last respray:{

I hit a seagull right after takeoff in a 72 once and the blasted thing hit right where the number 5 and 6 slats join on the right wing. The slats where slow in retracting and on landing at the next stop (Harrisburg Pa.) they were slow retracting again. So we looked at the leading edge and first we couldn’t see anything wrong. So climbed on to the top of the fuel truck and sure enough there was big dent where the slats joined.

Maintenance came out and looked at the damage and said they got to be replaced. So we got a couple of days off in wonderful downtown Harrisburg.

Ya wouldn’t think a small bird like a seagull could cause such damage on a Boeing 727, but it sure did.

I came around a bend at speed in country NSW and found a flock of many galahs all across the road. They arose, and typically of galahs, considered flying off in several directions, but while they tried to decide, I cleaned up quite a few. Very sad. I had pink and grey feathers in the grill, under the windscreen wipers and everywhere. Made quite a mess on the road.

Also met a huge grey roo on an open road in Perth. Luckily I was in a strong 1972 Ford Falcon which didn't fold. Although injured, the roo was still ready for a fight afterwards.

Just about everyone has hit something on the road at some time. Almost every species of animal and bird has suffered, except one.

I have never seen a dead crow by the roadside nor have I heard anyone claim to have hit one.

You can see them on the road daily, on roadkill scavenge duty, but you cannot get near the mongrels.

It's gotta take genius to collect a crow.

Omani Jag hit a Toyota on the way home from the range.

Indo F-16 hit a wild boar on take-off.

South African training jet hit a giraffe

thats about it

Hit a pheasant on a motorway once. I heard the thump as it went between the front wheels, looked in the rear view mirror - nothing but a large cloud of feathers.:uhoh:

Not a scratch on the car though :ok:

(It would have been alright if it kept going, but oh, no. Like all pheasants it had to turn away from safety and run back in front of me.)

That reminds me Carry on...

I was driving along the backroads in Western Samoa in a Wrangler Jeep. A suicidal chicken jumped out from between some reeds right in front of me & I had nowhere to go. Again, all I saw was a mass of white feathers & what looked like a feathery bowling ball chasing me!

Being new to the area, I didn't stop lest it was considered someones reincarnated Uncle Fester or sumfink!!!!:oh:

Never hit a Roo before, but I remember somewhere west of Kingaroy as a student pilot returning to the Sunshine Coast in Oz on dry tanks as I forgot to calculate into my taxi allowance 10 full length runs of the runway to get the Roos off the grass.
Funny I never did mention it to my instructor in the debrief :p