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martyb
on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:03PM
from the good-thing-they-didn't-hit-a-flying-pig dept.
from the good-thing-they-didn't-hit-a-flying-pig dept.
The intact carcass of a bird dangles from a plane after colliding with the aircraft approaching Miami International Airport.
This would seem to defy the laws of physics, or that just the bird's neck is Kryptonian. It's name is being witheld until the next of kin is notified....
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Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Snow on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:08PM
I guess you could say it stuck the landing.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:28PM (3 children)
What if it is a turkey that impacts a landing plane?
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday November 22 2017, @11:18PM
American farmed turkeys are too fat to have sex, doubt they can fly. You would need a Middle-Eastern Turkey to jump a plane, but do they migrate, with or without coconut?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Wednesday November 22 2017, @11:25PM
Turkey will need one of these [wikimedia.org] to do that
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:27AM
This time of year in Miami, I'd guess that's a turkey vulture.
With an average of one landing every 2.5 minutes, 24-7-365 at MIA, it's not much of a surprise that they hit a turkey vulture just right to embed its head behind the nose cone and run its neck up the impact-crack.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by sjames on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:36PM (1 child)
It's an unregistered BIODRONE!!! Alert the FAA, the FCC, CIA, and the ADA (Because why not).
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday November 22 2017, @11:08PM
Contact the coconut crabs [soylentnews.org]. They'll clean up the scene.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:36PM
...the bird was frozen.
(Score: 1) by ataradov on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:36PM
It is probably stuck on a Pitot tube.
(Score: 4, Informative) by deadstick on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:46PM
It's mashed flat. The outer wing feathers are hanging in the breeze because they haven't enough mass to plaster them against the surface, but you'd be hard put to find a complete bone anywhere in the unlucky critter.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday November 23 2017, @12:04AM (7 children)
Is it strange? There's nothing in the link about it being strange.
Are you sure? Or does it just defy some faulty assumptions about the structural integrity of both birds and planes?
I have no idea if it's strange, either, but if a story's going to be posted saying something is strange then it should be able to justify that claim. This fails.
Its name.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday November 23 2017, @12:58AM (1 child)
No need to be a dick about it. This isn't fucking Slashdot, and not everything has to be new for nerds godammit.
Fuck off.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:43AM
Don't take it too seriously. Being pedantic is all wonkey_monkey does.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday November 23 2017, @12:59AM (1 child)
If you wonder why people stop submitting, this is why.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:21AM
Thank you for the submission.
The ground crew seen in the video were clearly impressed by this, too.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:16AM (1 child)
Bird heads are ridiculously easy to pop off. Some Dove hunters I know rip the breast meat nuggets right out of the bird with their bare hands. It's a pretty disgusting spectacle until you get used to it.
First, you grab the neck and rip off the head, it comes right off with minimal force. Then you stick your fingers down the neck-hole down to the heart and rip the whole bird in half. That part takes some effort. Then you rip the heart off and toss it aside. then, finally, you dig out the breast meat nuggets and cook them (rednecks like to flash-fry them).
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:53AM
That's gripping with hands, this was landing approach speed right smack up against the nosecone where there's a fair amount of backpressure that lowers the airspeed on the bird-body even further. Weird yes, unbelievable no.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:34AM
So, I clicked and watched long enough to see that: yes, it's unusual, but no it's not hard at all to guess what happened. Bird impacts nosecone, cracks it open, bird's head ends up inside while body is swept back by the wind - swept into a crack made by the impact that holds the body in place by the head-anchor. This was on landing approach, so speeds were probably 250knots and falling at the time of impact, and since the turkey vultures hang out mostly near the downtown area there was probably less than 60 seconds of fly time after the impact.
Weird, yeah, one in a million. But, a million planes have landed at MIA in the last 29 months.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday November 23 2017, @12:37AM
So, in other words, there is no news going on in the world.
Eh, a quiet evening every now and then is nice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:35AM (6 children)
Looks like a 737. If it was landing fairly light, the landing airspeed could be 130-140 mph (~120 knots). If the bird was flying the same direction as the plane, its velocity would subtract from the impact speed. If the bird got scared moments before collision, it could have dived for more airspeed, so might have been going 60 mph(??) Then, since the dent is right at the nose, the fore wake of the plane would have sped the bird up a little. Impact speed could be as slow as 60-70 mph (all using very speculative numbers). The dent means that the crash didn't happen all at once, it took some (small) time to change from bird_speed up to plane_speed.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:09AM (3 children)
So, more a smoosh than a splat.
My god, man, a 60mph bird!
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:03AM (2 children)
https://www.thetravelalmanac.com/lists/birds-speed.htm [thetravelalmanac.com]
> ...the Peregrine Falcon is not only the fastest moving bird, it is the fastest animal on the planet. It first soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 200 mph. However, it does not make the top ten list below which is based on speeds when travelling in level flight.
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> Fastest Level Flying
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> The following list of birds is based on the travelling speed when measured in level flying. The info is from several sources and you may find other contradicting lists elsewhere. The top of this list, the Spine-tailed swift, obviously gets its name 'swift' for being so fast.
Table lists 10 bird species, all clocked at faster than 60mph (100kph).
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:36AM
Wow. I've had cars that couldn't go that fast.
Wonder if poor squashed birdy sped up when he saw the plane follwing him...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:58AM
The Peregrine Falcon is not the fastest animal on the planet. That title goes to a certain mammal, especially around certain areas like Florida, New Guinea and Baikonur.
(Score: 2) by gottabeme on Thursday November 23 2017, @10:23AM
That's an Airbus.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:41PM
The nose of a jet liner is a radome and is not made out of metal. I don't know what exactly it is made out of it but it needs to let the radar signals through because the nose is really just a shell protecting the radar antennas. Something like this [businessinsider.com].
The bird broke some plastic instead of dented some metal. The very tip of the nose has a hole and there is the quite obvious hole the bird is sitting in.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:41AM (1 child)
Did it impact the nose, push through and punch out the side, or is the nose deformed from the impact?
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(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:44PM
The nose of a jetliner is a plastic shell called a radome. Like this [businessinsider.com].
It looks like the bird hit the tip of the nose first, broke it, then got sucked around and slammed into the side of the aircraft, punched a giant hole, then came to rest inside the radome.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:06AM
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