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Ryanair 737 flies into a flock of Herons!!

Aggiunto 2 anni fa

Crazy story with even crazier pictures. Congrats to the crew for the phenomenal job landing the aircraft safely. (www.dailymail.co.uk) Altro...

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braxtron 2 anni fa 22

Incredible. Landed safely with an obstructed windshield, at least one pitot tube blocked, an a AoA sensor damaged, and one engine. Respect!

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hal pushpak 2 anni fa 10

With one flamed out and a pitot and an AoA jammed like that, this could have been a master disaster if they had chosen a go around.. Glad it was VFR. Or maybe..

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Alex Sullivnan 2 anni fa 16

Captain Sully would be extremely proud! Well done by the pilots!

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Michael Stansfield 2 anni fa 5

Glad they landed safely.

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Malcolm Jones 2 anni fa 7

The dull red colour of the legs stuck to the fuselage sides suggest Purple Herons and not Cranes which have Black legs and the feather colours also suggest Purple Heron, and yes, they do fly in flocks.

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17dec1903 2 anni fa 6

With all due credit to Gary Larson, has anyone managed to find out the names of any of the deceased birds?

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Juan Jimenez 2 anni fa 1

Larry, Moe, Curly and their inlaws.

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D. Ray Palmer 2 anni fa 5

Anyone trying to blame this on Boeing?

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redelmo 2 anni fa 4

LoL I was thinking the same thing. BA did go down. Might have been this instead of the South African variant

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Mike Monk 2 anni fa 7

No...it was because of Brexit.

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Mark Kortum 2 anni fa 4

Glad someone has a sense of humour.

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Declan Spring 2 anni fa 2

Hard as it may be, you have to gie great credit to the Ryanair pilots.

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Peter Fuller 2 anni fa 1

Why would it be hard to give credit to the Ryanair pilots? That should be easy. The pilots aren’t the people who designed and implemented the Ryanair passenger experience that folks on this board love to hate.

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Nolan Clinard 2 anni fa 2

LMAO at these comments.

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Juan Jimenez 2 anni fa 2

Wait what? One of the birds went into A PITOT TUBE? No bird in the history of birds has ever had that much bad luck.

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Bryan Nylander 2 anni fa 2

Impressive job by the pilots with limited instruments and window smeared not to mention an engine out. Sounds like a simulator ride from hell.

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Juan Jimenez 2 anni fa 2

I bet someone at CAE has already figured out how to program a level 3 sim to do that...
- Yo, Fred.
- Yeah?
- What is this new button with the postit that says "KABLOOIE!"?
- Try it.
- <KABLOOIE!>
- Oh. That's gross.
- That's what Linda said! <snort!>

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Mike Williams 2 anni fa 2

I wonder how those birds taste like? Probably like chicken.
Why do they not put some sort of screen on the intake side of the engine?

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James Cross 2 anni fa 4

The screen would disrupt the airflow and cause compressor stalls

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Cleffer 2 anni fa 4

"They will be Cranes not Heron. Herons do not fly in a flock". Comment on the story is true. The media screws up yet another aviation story. LOL.

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Pecos Llama 2 anni fa 4

Another sure fire way to differentiate flying crane(s) from flying heron(s) is that a heron will fly with its neck in an S-shape, while a crane will fly with its neck straight.

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