Officials have been forced to suspend flights into an airport in the Italian city of Milan due to a plague of hares.
The animals invaded the runways at Milan’s Linate Airport – and affected the operation of vital equipment.
Airport bosses are baffled as to why the hare population at Linate has risen so dramatically in the past few months.
Whatever the cause, the result has been chaos – in the past two weeks alone, two hares have ended up beneath the wheels of charter planes.
Unusual step
They have also confused the ground radar that is meant to prevent a repeat of Italy’s worst ever air crash, which left 118 people dead, at Linate in 2001.
Things have become so serious that officials have taken the unusual step of closing Linate for three hours – from first light on Sunday – while a team of local wildlife experts try to catch the 80 or so hares that have been causing the problem.
The hares will be taken to nature reserves around Milan – though officials have warned that they have not ruled out a cull if this fails.
Linate is the airport of choice for anyone wanting a quick trip into Milan – lying as it does just five kilometres (three miles) from the city centre – unlike the city’s other airports which can often take more than an hour to reach on the area’s congested motorways.
Hares are not the only natural hazard to afflict Linate: it’s also prone to bouts of dense fog.
By: Newforest - 29th June 2007 at 17:49
Is this the same airport where an SAS DC9 came to grief after a runway incursion during fog by a private jet a few years back??
Absolutely correct Steve, 8/10/01, MD-87, SE-DMA.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20011008-0
By: steve rowell - 29th June 2007 at 08:16
Is this the same airport where an SAS DC9 came to grief after a runway incursion during fog by a private jet a few years back??
By: bexWH773 - 24th June 2007 at 21:32
They have also confused the ground radar
I have a question, does this mean that they have been having HARErratic radar detections? :diablo:
Bex
By: bexWH773 - 24th June 2007 at 19:56
Or, if conventional means fail to remove the pests, then maybe it’ll be time to call the Italian Airforce Tornados in to perform a(n) “Hare Strike”?
Paul F
So does that mean theyll be using Hare Burst Weapons then? :diablo:
Bex
By: Paul F - 22nd June 2007 at 13:00
If they can’t fix the problem maybe the Military can take over and turn it into a Hare Force base
Or, if conventional means fail to remove the pests, then maybe it’ll be time to call the Italian Airforce Tornados in to perform a(n) “Hare Strike”?
Paul F
By: steve rowell - 21st June 2007 at 09:36
If they can’t fix the problem maybe the Military can take over and turn it into a Hare Force base
By: Paul F - 21st June 2007 at 09:12
Haven’t they heard of electrolysis – that procedure is said to be a permanent solution for unwanted hare :D.
Paul F
By: steve rowell - 21st June 2007 at 01:36
Be careful i almost laughed
By: Richard Taylor - 20th June 2007 at 20:49
OK I meant SUBconsciousness…
…but then I would be splitting hares…
(just an excuse for another bad bunny pun! 😀 :dev2: )
By: Richard Taylor - 20th June 2007 at 20:11
I have just had a sudden compulsion to listen to Art Garfunkel…:rolleyes:
This thread burrows into your conciousness…:eek:
By: frankvw - 20th June 2007 at 18:09
And do what? Bunny them?
By: Newforest - 20th June 2007 at 15:58
No, that plane can just fly short hops.
And these are the worst puns I’d hared in a long time.
Well, you should complain to Hare Traffic Control.:D
By: frankvw - 20th June 2007 at 09:19
No, that plane can just fly short hops.
And these are the worst puns I’d hared in a long time.
By: Newforest - 19th June 2007 at 21:14
Not sure, but I’m all ears…:diablo:
I think they were freight operators…transporting carrots…:rolleyes:
Do you think they ever went to O’Hare?:D
By: Richard Taylor - 19th June 2007 at 21:10
Not sure, but I’m all ears…:diablo:
I think they were freight operators…transporting carrots…:rolleyes:
By: Newforest - 19th June 2007 at 21:01
[QUOTE=Richard Taylor;1128843)The Swiss had – maybe still has – an ad-hoc operator called…
RABBIT Air! 😮
I snapped a couple of their Falcons at ABZ Dyce a few years ago…which is no stranger to bunny wabbits either…:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
You’re not joking, here is HB-IAX being anonymous. Wonder what the Rabbit Airline did?
By: Richard Taylor - 19th June 2007 at 20:20
Why has this been moved to GD?
I’m hopping mad. 😀
Trivia:
The Swiss had – maybe still has – an ad-hoc operator called…
RABBIT Air! 😮
I snapped a couple of their Falcons at ABZ Dyce a few years ago…which is no stranger to bunny wabbits either…:rolleyes:
By: Newforest - 19th June 2007 at 14:47
Hare today, gone tomorrow?:D
By: PMN - 19th June 2007 at 14:30
hijacked i tell you hijacked!
Do i really have to move this to GD, will no one add to the discussion?:eek: :dev2:
Don’t tell me you believed for a second this thread would end in any other way! 😀
How long until we see various Italian airlines offering locally produced Rabbit Stew? 🙂
Paul
By: Richard Taylor - 19th June 2007 at 11:42
Must people rabbit on about the hares?
It’s not bunny.:rolleyes:
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