Drone or Bird Strike Forces Airliner to Land

[Crashnburn]

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/the-latest/2020/07/07/breaking-news-drone-or-bird-strike-forces-delta-plane-to-land-at-jfk/

My money is on a drone strike as I don't see any blood nor feathers.

 

[flyingron]

Wouldn't be too sure. I knocked a good chunk out of a 172 wing with a turkey buzzard (this I know because I saw it at the last moment) without any blood or feathers.

 

[Groundpounder]

Looks more like hail damage to me

 

[Stingray Don]

“Another possibility is that it could’ve been a Mylar balloon“


A Mylar balloon? Really?

 

[Skyrys62]

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My money is on this guy...

 

[RyanShort1]

I'm gonna say I doubt it was a drone.

 

[A1Topgun]

Weather ballon payload! Weighs a few pounds. What's odd is, whatever it was struck dead center on the nose.

 

[Zeldman]

Looks like the plane was going so fast that the nose just caved in from all the air.....

 

[Groundpounder]

I hate it when I am right....

https://abc7ny.com/delta-flight-diverted-after-hail-damages-nose/6303574/

A Delta Airlines says hail, not a bird, caused the damage that forced a flight to make an emergency landing at JFK Airport in New York City.

The Airbus A319 carrying 43 passengers from Palm Beach, Florida, landed safely at JFK Airport just before 7:00 p.m. on Monday.

Photos show that the plane's front cone, which houses radar equipment, sustained significant damage.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL1076/history/20200706/2000Z/KPBI/KJFK

 

[flyingron]

Nope, now they're back to the bird idea.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's SUPERMAN!
... uh, no it's just a bird.

 

[Groundpounder]

Nope, now they're back to the bird idea.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's SUPERMAN!
... uh, no it's just a bird.

This article is more recent than the daily mail article. I think the lack of any blood or guts points towards hail, but I donno.

This pic is of another airbus that went through hail in China.

 

[topgun260]

This article is more recent than the daily mail article. I think the lack of any blood or guts points towards hail, but I donno.

This pic is of another airbus that went through hail in China.

I bet flying through hail big enough to do that makes quite a racket inside!

 

[kayoh190]

We've done it too:

 

[Skyrys62]

We've done it too:

Daaaaaannnngggg....

Did some underwear get replaced along with everything else?

 

[Jeremy Billeaudeaux]

What does this do to the turbine fans when you go through this ? I imagine if the nose looks like that, the internals of the engines probably gets dinged up pretty bad. Like a whole bunch of high speed FOD.