dangermouse
01.Oct.2009 20:34 hrs
Via Yahoo! News:
Plane hits 200 birds on take-off
A German airliner was put at considerable risk when a flock of starling birds decided they wanted to crash the runway.
The Germania plane was heading to Kosovo with 80 people on board when the birds attacked the plane at Dusseldorf Airport.
It is thought around 200 starlings were sucked into the right hand engine as the plane reached take-off speed.
tech71
05.Oct.2009 09:11 hrs
200 birds sucked into the engine and it kept running. Thats a good engine. Must have passed its "Chicken" test with flying colors.
Derekbeggs
05.Oct.2009 09:26 hrs
Sing a song of sixpence,
The plane can barely fly,
for now ten score of starling,
in jet engines came to die.
But when the cowl was openend,
Those alive were heard to say,
Were flying off to report you,
to the RSPCA
don_riina
05.Oct.2009 09:35 hrs
200 birds sucked into the engine and it kept running. Thats a good engine
Indeed. The engine in question was actually based upon a machine invented by McDonalds to turn chicken parts into goo, from which they then make Mcnuggets.
NoBullJim
05.Oct.2009 09:59 hrs
Wow, what are the odds, EXACTLY 200 birds
aswd
05.Oct.2009 10:11 hrs
is it the pilot who was counting the birds at spped of a computer as exact 200 or the reporter who knew this was going to be war of the day between human mad bird and real bird or it the engineer who got exact 200 body skelton of the birds
tech71
05.Oct.2009 10:16 hrs
Maybe they are Islamic fundamentalist suicide terror birds. I'm scared now.
Guy
05.Oct.2009 11:06 hrs
when the birds attacked the plane at Dusseldorf Airport
Clearly a fundamentalist attack squad of some kind.
UrbanAngel
05.Oct.2009 11:53 hrs
around 200 starlings
Wow, what are the odds, EXACTLY 200 birds
Umm..?
eddmac
05.Oct.2009 12:18 hrs
Well done Derekbeggs, you were very quick with the rhyme
SpiritedAway
06.Oct.2009 09:02 hrs
I think "attacked" is the wrong word here. I don't think the birdsintended to get sucked into the engine unless they had some sort of vendetta against the airline and actually wished to cause some form of problems.
tech71
06.Oct.2009 09:23 hrs
The article is quite vague. Its highly unlikely that hundreds of birds were sucked into the engine. The aircraft continued its ascent and circled for 45 minutes. Doubtful they would do that with an engine out and if it had sucked in 200 hundred birds no way that engine would continue to function.
South African
06.Oct.2009 10:14 hrs
Yip, highly unlikely but very good grouping, it has to be said.
aspiadas
06.Oct.2009 12:21 hrs
I'm so glad they were starlings. One of those b******ds crapped on me.
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