Goose strikes forced two commercial jets to make unscheduled landings during the past two days. The first came Wednesday in New Jersey, where a Hong Kong-bound Continental Airlines Boeing 777 returned to Newark Liberty after it struck a flock of geese just after takeoff, according to The Associated Press.
The second incident came Thursday morning when a Charlotte-bound US Airways Airbus A319 returned to Rochester, N.Y., after it also encountered geese, according to The Charlotte Observer. No injuries were reported in either incident.
By: TheMightyOz - 13th March 2010 at 23:18
RR engines are designed to eat chickens, not geese, due to the large chicken flocks that are common at high altitude! :diablo:
By: soyuz1917 - 13th March 2010 at 22:43
The new SAM-146 engine can eat geese for breakfast lunch and dinner and never stop. The fatally exploding engine in the video is a Rolls Royce design.
By: Arabella-Cox - 13th March 2010 at 16:31
They can be thankful it wasn’t a Grumman Goose or Geese.
By: LERX - 12th March 2010 at 23:21
Surely there must be some mistake here?
Surely you mean Geese strikes?
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March 12, 2010 at 10:23 pm