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Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-thing-they-didn't-hit-a-flying-pig dept.

edIII writes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:34AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:34AM (#600498)

    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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