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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: Hollis on May 15, 2008, 08:23:04 PM

Title: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: Hollis on May 15, 2008, 08:23:04 PM
A JetBlue A320 hit a bird during landing rollout. Tower controller apparently didn't listen too closely to the pilot's report of it.
Incidentally, the A320 was reported to have suffered 'substantial' damage.
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: xprtmarksman on May 21, 2008, 12:25:13 AM
Wow, real confusing.  I think she handled it fine.  She cleared the following aircraft for a visual approach on another runway.  I think you're the one that's confused.
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: dylanh on May 21, 2008, 01:32:33 AM
He's baaack. :roll: Hey turbo! How's training going? Anybody stupid enough to hire you yet?
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: gthill2000 on May 23, 2008, 10:04:24 PM
Wow, real confusing.  I think she handled it fine.  She cleared the following aircraft for a visual approach on another runway.  I think you're the one that's confused.

She was confused, she thought he was reporting hawks on a 2 mile final when he in fact hit the hawk at the 2000ft marker on the runway.  But if your just trying to find an excuse to be an ass, I understand.   :roll:
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: Hollis on May 23, 2008, 10:20:20 PM
Right you are. She finally realized that a bird carcass on the runway would be a hazard, so she directed the inbounds to 'sidestep' to the parallel runway, which is exactly the correct procedure. Had an inbound been closer on a very short final, she would have ordered a go-around.
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: jb8622 on May 24, 2008, 12:21:35 PM
This is one of the reasons I don't visit this forum very often... it seems on almost every post people are always bickering!
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: aviator_06 on May 24, 2008, 12:33:37 PM
Well I don't think the pilot explained well when he first announed that he hit a bird. He should have said we had a bird strike.
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: KSYR-pjr on May 24, 2008, 02:26:27 PM
This is one of the reasons I don't visit this forum very often... it seems on almost every post people are always bickering!

It has been demonstrated that 72.8% of all statistics are exaggerated.
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: jb8622 on May 24, 2008, 10:04:28 PM
This is one of the reasons I don't visit this forum very often... it seems on almost every post people are always bickering!

It has been demonstrated that 72.8% of all statistics are exaggerated.

Keyword: seems
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: KSYR-pjr on May 24, 2008, 11:14:49 PM
This is one of the reasons I don't visit this forum very often... it seems on almost every post people are always bickering!

It has been demonstrated that 72.8% of all statistics are exaggerated.

Keyword: seems

Keyword:  Joke
Title: Re: Bird strike at KSLC causes controller confusion
Post by: jb8622 on May 25, 2008, 11:29:53 AM
This is one of the reasons I don't visit this forum very often... it seems on almost every post people are always bickering!

It has been demonstrated that 72.8% of all statistics are exaggerated.

Keyword: seems

Keyword:  Joke

LOL