Coyote strike

[Hengelo]

United flight forced to turn around after hitting a coyote during takeoff

A United Airlines flight was forced to divert back to Chicago O’Hare airport on Sunday after the plane hit a coyote during takeoff.

www.wect.com

 

[wanttaja]

"Delta 315, United 123, be advised, there's a dead coyote on the runway."

"Roger, United, we'll notify our caterers....."

Ron Wanttaja

 

[FORANE]

My tail art.

 

[AV8R_87]

 

[Jim K]

So Warner Bros. is doing live action remakes now too?

 

[Bob Noel]

My tail art.
View attachment 137269

send the graphic to United so that it can be painted on the incident aircraft... four more and the crew can become aces

 

[Racerx]

Need to open up hunting at O'Hare... I'll take one for the team and volunteer.

 

[RussR]

They must be making an organized attack. I had to abort takeoff yesterday due to a couple of them on the runway at CRP.

 

[flyingron]

The large ACME shipping crate next to the runway should have been a warning sign.

 

[nauga]

I heard a story just after arriving at a remote test site. I have no idea if it's true or not but it started with TINS so take it for what it's worth: Large airplane returns from a test flight. On postflight inspection what looks like coyote remains are found on the nose gear, but there's not much left. No significant damage to the airplane, cleaned up, flying again. Not long after, rumors of animal mutilations in the area are heard based on someone finding a mangled coyote carcass on their well-secured property.

Nauga,
who knows it's aliens

 

[midwestpa24]

Ironically there was another incident Monday morning in a Chicago Aldi's store involving a coyote. I know Chicago has a lot of problems, but didn't realize coyotes were one of them.

 

[midwestpa24]

I heard a story just after arriving at a remote test site. I have no idea if it's true or not but it started with TINS so take it for what it's worth: Large airplane returns from a test flight. On postflight inspection what looks like coyote remains are found on the nose gear, but there's not much left. No significant damage to the airplane, cleaned up, flying again. Not long after, rumors of animal mutilations in the area are heard based on someone finding a mangled coyote carcass on their well-secured property.

Nauga,
who knows it's aliens

Mutilated animals falling from the sky...

 

[MauleSkinner]

So the coyotes are striking because of dangerous working conditions?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

My pal hit a coyote taking off from El Paso at night in a 210. Insurance totaled the airplane but I think it flew again.
They can cause some damage.

 

[Dave Theisen]

Coyote strike? I didn’t even know they had a union.

 

[Lindberg]

My pal hit a coyote taking off from El Paso at night in a 210.

The coyote probably didn't even have a pilot license.

 

[Bob Noel]

The coyote probably didn't even have a pilot license.

But what about a pilot certificate?

 

[MauleSkinner]

My pal hit a coyote taking off from El Paso at night in a 210.

The coyote probably didn't even have a pilot license.

Still no excuse for violence.

 

[Jim K]

Oops, sorry that was supposed to go in my RV14 thread

 

[Bill]

Was kinda hoping it was Speedbird that hit the coyote :-(

 

[Dana]

I know Chicago has a lot of problems, but didn't realize coyotes were one of them.

Chicago sure has problems, but coyotes are everywhere now, even Central Park in NYC. When I was flying powered paragliders at the old Griswold Airport in CT, it was quite the sport to fly around and chase coyotes off the airport in the evening.

 

[Rene]

I found footage of the moment before the strike on the net.