Aircraft on final struck birds, landed without incident.
http://registry.faa.gov/N8623K
Date: 29-OCT-16
Time: 03:04:00Z
Regis#: N8623K
Aircraft Make: STINSON
Aircraft Model: 108
Event Type: Incident
Highest Injury: None
Damage: Minor
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
City: SALEM
State: Oregon
That was me. Coming home with a group of half a dozen airplanes after dinner at another airport. The 1st 3 airplanes landed fine, and at about 200 feet AGL we saw a couple of geese go by in the landing light, then BANG BANG BANG, hit 3 of 'em.
ReplyDeleteWhat a mess. :( https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5558/30354904410_872fcd8d70_b.jpg
I always thought a non powered flying machine had the right-a-way. The twenty one gun salute will be reduced to just three. lol I have hit a lot of birds too. It is spendy.
ReplyDeleteSomebody better be glad they were riding in a tank-like Stinson rather than one of them new-fangled paper-mache Cirrus types of ships, or we'd be reading about a toilet-tissue explosion where the surviving goose declared a "missed approach" and came back around for a perfect touchdown. But as it worked out...anyone for days old "pate."
ReplyDeleteCirrus aircraft have had birdstrikes and none has come apart or crashed from them. Composite materials are very strong.
ReplyDeleteCan't some genius poster enact a citizen arrest on the a/c owner and pilot....??? this type of crime will continue unless there is swift prosecution of all parties in situations like this occurrence......
ReplyDeleteThree (3) lives were lost forever......remember, each had a family, obligations, and perhaps large real estate holdings at time of their death......
LC