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Old 9th Jan 2001, 04:40
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HugMonster
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What's it like? Pretty darned uncomfortable, if you're a bird...

I've had a couple of birdstrikes, and one foxstrike. That was on the T/O roll out of SEN in an EMB110 at night. I saw it and tried to lift the nosewheel over it - my skipper hadn't seen it and thought I had gone barmy, trying to rotate too early! Hit it a glancing blow, and it must have crawled off to die somewhere quieter, as the subsequent R/W inspection didn't find it.

Neither birstrike was much of an event - one in an Islander (NO, it didn't hit it from behind!) caught the nosegear leg. The other in an ATR72, hit just above the F/O's windscreen, no damage (to the aircraft) but much blood and guts scraped over the front of the fuselage.

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