Massive birdstrike on PrecisionAir ATR72

[hunbet]

Originally Posted by DaveReidUK

At the moment, we don't have any evidence of any in this instance.

• You can clearly see in first picture that both pitot tubes are plugged with bird parts,the aoa sensor has stuff wrapped around it and the tat probe has bird parts hanging from it.

[Mora34]

Originally Posted by misd-agin

Wings don't stall because engines fail. Power failure and loss of airspeed indicators would be hard to handle. Pure seat of the pants flying time. :-(

Actually the Electra did lose a significant part of lift if an engine failed. It had a huge wing loading and a very significant part of lift was created by the prop wash around the wing.

[sputnic]

Well done those two pilots.
No computer would have been able to bring a plane like this back safely, so I guess we are safe for a while!
Are pilots necessary in planes is a big debate as some believe that with the advent of AI there will be no need for pilots in a not too distance future. I would beg to differ seeing a plane in such a state, and this is only one exemple amongst hundreds as we all know as pilots.
Well done again.

[Butor]

I very much doubt that these were due to a Quelia flock, that pointed wing attached to the landing gear looks much like those of a wader of some sort. There are very likely big flocks of waders from Northern Europe wintering around Lake Victoria..

PS: I'm more interrested in birds than planes as a rule!

Mike

[Parrot]

Originally Posted by Butor

I very much doubt that these were due to a Quelia flock, that pointed wing attached to the landing gear looks much like those of a wader of some sort. There are very likely big flocks of waders from Northern Europe wintering around Lake Victoria..

PS: I'm more interrested in birds than planes as a rule!

Mike

Agree with you, those are not Quelea birds which have a different wing profile and are in any case much much smaller .. about the size of a sparrow

[meleagertoo]

Originally Posted by hunbet

• You can clearly see in first picture that both pitot tubes are plugged with bird parts,the aoa sensor has stuff wrapped around it and the tat probe has bird parts hanging from it.

There is debris hanging from the bases of all the pitot masts but it is quite impossible to tell if any are actually plugged. One or more might be certainly, but it can't be seen from that photo.
Masts will collect debris sliding back after an impact elsewhere but that doesn't go into the tube's mouth itself.