Originally Posted by
safelife
We just had a bird strike at 11000ft with 280kt IAS doing extensive damage. Palma de Mallorca.
Folks,
One of the best I remember, from years ago, was a snake strike.
Ansett or TAA, B727 or 737, don't remember, but the radome was all smashed up, and the remains of a snake was found against the fwd pressure bulkhead, it was assumed an eagle had dropped it when it evaded the aircraft.
There have also been recorded a number of high altitude fish strikes, attributed to a thunderstorm tornado lifting them out of the water and carrying them to great height. In one case, it was conjectured that the fish was high enough for long enough to be frozen, thus doing much more damage than its estimated size would suggest.
There is also a very famous case of a condor (I think) coming through the windscreen of a 727 over the Andes, something like FL 290 (??) the F/O was faced with a dead captain, blood and guts everywhere, and an explosive decompression with a very high LSA. He got everybody on the ground without further damage. Quite an effort.
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