Jet hits brown bear while landing in southeast Alaska
YAKUTAT, Alaska (AP) — Officials said an Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to the plane.
The Anchorage Daily News reports none of the passengers or crew members onboard the plane were injured during the accident at the Yakutat Airport in southeast Alaska.
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities said the Boeing 737-700 killed the brown bear sow, but a cub thought to be about 2 years old was uninjured.
The left engine cowling of the jet was damaged and the plane remained in Yakutat on Sunday.
To much excitement for this old flier.
That's not much damage. Where is the dead bear?
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That's the wrong type of excitement.
That's not much damage. Where is the dead bear?
I'm no airplane mechanic but I bet that plane gets about 2 weeks on the ground w/folks looking for damage. It's not the damage you can see that's the problem, it's the potential damage you can't see without a very careful look.
That will buff right out.
If it's brown, it's down.
That's not much damage. Where is the dead bear?
I'm no airplane mechanic but I bet that plane gets about 2 weeks on the ground w/folks looking for damage. It's not the damage you can see that's the problem, it's the potential damage you can't see without a very careful look.
I would hope that they'd pull the engine and put a new one on the plane. Then take the engine somewhere to get fixed and inspected. Not sure, I'm not an airplane mechanic either.
That's not much damage. Where is the dead bear?
Hahahaha
In pieces on the runway 😮
Forget Homer. Yakutat is where it's at.
Browns wonder around town.
Go checkout Disenchantment Bay. You won't be disappointed.
Wow..... Imagine being the pilot when he first saw the bear on the runway. I would have wished I had adult diapers on.
There’s not much you can do except think “oh $hit!”. Fortunately it was on landing and not takeoff.
Two guys that work with me have hit deer here on takeoff in the TA-4J. One involved three deer at night and the other hit two deer in the daytime. Fortunately the intakes on the TA-4J are pretty high off the ground so no engine damage.
Almost nailed a doe and two fawns one afternoon with a student in the front doing the takeoff. I saw them at about 12:30 - 1:00 just before they got to the concrete and all I could do was to say “keep going straight, don’t dodge ........”. Probably a 10-15 yard miss. The student said all he saw a brown blur at the last second.
I bet the accident scene was pretty grizzly !
Not many people get to fill a $10,000,000 tag, using a $110,000,000 weapon
2 nights ago I missed a deer between Billings and MC by a hair. Well maybe 4 hairs. The second one was a good 3 feet away. Those damned Nisson rentals with CA plates are hazardous!
They are tough animals.
Use enough jet.
did the jet shed any petals on the way through?
AKwolverine posted this in the AK forum yesterday...
That's not much damage. Where is the dead bear?
Hahahaha
In pieces on the runway 😮
I hope that they harvested all of it so they don't get ticketed for wanton waste.
I was up around Hartford CT years ago (around 93' I believe) for business and there was a big to do on the evening news one night about a plane at the local airport (small passenger jet I think) that hit a deer or two on take off and it destroyed their landing gear. They decided to do an emergency landing back at the airport they took off from. The fire department sprayed a bunch of some kind of foam on the runway and the plane landed without any injuries.
That's not much damage. Where is the dead bear?
I'm no airplane mechanic but I bet that plane gets about 2 weeks on the ground w/folks looking for damage. It's not the damage you can see that's the problem, it's the potential damage you can't see without a very careful look.
I would hope that they'd pull the engine and put a new one on the plane. Then take the engine somewhere to get fixed and inspected. Not sure, I'm not an airplane mechanic either.
Ring cowls are hollow, they flow bleed air through them to prevent ice build up inside the inlet. I could do more damage with a couple of whacks of a three pound sledge. R&R the cowling and it's good to go. Ya all want to see a mess find photos of the KC-135 that smacked a cow on the runway at Beale AFB...
I met a guy one time the got into some deer while landing a Cessna Citation jet in Brookhaven, Georgia one time. He didn't hit the first one. The second hit one of the landing gear and he drug it to the terminal. The 3rd hit the side of the jet causing an 80k repair job.
Not many people get to fill a $10,000,000 tag, using a $110,000,000 weapon
2 nights ago I missed a deer between Billings and MC by a hair. Well maybe 4 hairs. The second one was a good 3 feet away. Those damned Nisson rentals with CA plates are hazardous!
You’re in Billings area?
Still?
Loooong weekend
Got into Billings Friday afternoon, spent weekend in MC (FIL 80th birthday), got home midnight last night. Had I planned it better I should have had a few days to go kill off some - one, anyway - of Conrads/Olson's doe deer... might as well get into this "sport hunting" I hear about , now that I'm on retard time
90th birthday.. my bad.
Hmmm.... apply a little duct tape and get er in the air!
Looks like the color will blend just fine, another bonus!
If the women don’t find ya handsome......
Osky
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