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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: Cap747 on May 18, 2010, 04:10:38 PM

Title: Jetblue Multiple Canada Geese strike
Post by: Cap747 on May 18, 2010, 04:10:38 PM

After reading about it at http://www.avherald.com/h?article=42ba961a&opt=0 I found this little conversation.  They were lucky they could normally land !

Title: Re: Jetblue Multiple Canada Geese strike
Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on May 18, 2010, 04:19:27 PM

Surprised they didn't hit any hear in Sacramento. The bird strikes here have been increasing a lot lately. Glad everything worked out for them.

Title: Re: Jetblue Multiple Canada Geese strike
Post by: Cap747 on May 18, 2010, 04:22:51 PM

I left the phonenumber out, because it is irrelevant, but if anyone has a picture of a Canada goose and it's size... Please post it....

Title: Re: Jetblue Multiple Canada Geese strike
Post by: Biff on May 18, 2010, 04:30:48 PM

When you're flying a 172 they look like this:

Title: Re: Jetblue Multiple Canada Geese strike
Post by: Hollis on May 18, 2010, 07:21:53 PM

Just to fill in, this is how it happened.