From the NY Post:A "reasonably large bird" struck and damaged the landing gear at the nose of an incoming American Airlines plane landing at LaGuardia this morning, FAA and airline officials said.
Flight 1256 from Miami landed safely on Runway 22 and taxied to Gate 10, said FAA spokesman Jim Peters. There were no reported injuries.
It's uncertain what type of birds hit the plane, though sources said it was likely some type of gull. Those birds are statistically most likely to hit planes at this time of year at LaGuardia, federal data shows.
Canada geese are molting at this time of year and are generally grounded. Since 2000, there's been only one Canada goose strike at LaGuardia in June and July.
22 comments:
I don't get it. A lot of Queens Crap bloggers say that Bloomie is for the birds!!?!?!??!?!?!?!!!!
Hey Commissar Death and Taxes, I surrender.
Let's all go out and kill every feathered, winged creature found anywhere in NYC!
Atta boy!
Let's KILL! KILL! KILL! Let's turn the streets bloody and feathered!
After that spree, no bird will ever dare to even get as close to here as NJ or Conn, Penna.
Here is my weird geese story of the week : last week I heard the unmistakable sound of geese . (I live in Forest Hills right by the lovely & quiet LIRR tracks...) With all the stories of geese culling and molting, I ran to my apartment window to see a supposedly impossible sight: a large "V" of geese flying North. I do not know what to make of that but can molting geese still fly? Or are these out of town geese coming in for a landing or migrating? Either way, they were in the air and it underscores the point some have made on the petition site that removing the geese currently residing in Queens will not solve the problem as other geese will move into the habitat, replacing the culled geese. I have a problem with the plan , as is, but I really have a problem with faulty solutions that are designed to look like something effective is being done when , really, the original problem still exists, just in a new form. It makes me wonder if the culling won't have to be year around to be "effective".
This story is taking an interesting tern. Bloomturd's mass execution of birds is hard to swallow. Not only is he robin from the pheasants, but he has the gull to duck questions about this policy because he is chicken. Who told him that the birds are dangerous...a stool pigeon? He dove right into this and started gassing without even considering his heritage. The birds are just a myna inconvenience and assuming that they need to be slaughtered is just plane cuckoo. Let us all hope that the people of New York City see the mayor for what he is and make him sing his swan song. If he were here right now, I would say to him, FLOCK YOU!"
I am grateful that this incident had a happy ending.
Very funny JLS.
This just in, I just got a phone call from Marist College where they are conducting a poll that is all about our Mayor and how one would vote if the election were today. (It also had a few baseball questions thrown in for fun I guess)
The poll comes out in one week's time . Can't wait.
Let's invade Canada!
I don't get it. How does a tiny critter like a gull made of oleaginous flesh and brittle bones damage the landing gear of an immense airplane?
I run over small critters on the roads all the time and nothing happens.
Oh, this saddens me so much! Birdie holocaust! Bad karma for Bloomberg. My every bird crap on his head.
Eggsactly! The yolks on him.
Please stop picking on our friend Mike. Actually, my family and I are planning to have him for dinner on Thanksgiving.
georgetheatheist said...
I don't get it. How does a tiny critter like a gull made of oleaginous flesh and brittle bones damage the landing gear of an immense airplane?
I run over small critters on the roads all the time and nothing happens.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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How brave of you, George. How macho.
BTW--I'm not really an agnostic. I'm just using satire.
George,
When you're driving, you're not traveling at over 400 mph and your car doesn't weigh 8,000 tons It's called momentum.
1. Your satire is transparent.
2. The airplane has more momentum than the car. The critter would logically be more insignificant.
Simple - parts on airplanes are made as lightly as possible, with a safety factor of around 1.5 (cars, it's more like 5x)
When a bird strikes a plane, it's hitting something designed to barely stay together (and sometimes the designers of airplanes underestimate the loads - Airbus Vertical Stabs anyone?)
georgetheatheist said...
1. Your satire is transparent.
2. The airplane has more momentum than the car. The critter would logically be more insignificant.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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As are your desperate attempts to get people to pay attention to you.
I do not understand.
He overturns the will of the people with term limits, and many sit and say nothing.
He kills birds and they go apeshit.
You know Gary, I don't always agree with what Goerge writes all the time. But at least hes original. All you do is parret what he writes and then you add your snide comment. Why dont YOU write something original for once?
I have in the past, and I will again, LMM. It's just that I find some of George's postings to be truly disturbing, and I have to challenge them.
Well, well. What have we here? A man on a mission. A comic book crusader?
Let the truth be out. I was "Little Miss Muffet" mispellings and all. You fell into my trap, Satirical Ignorant One. Hahahahaha.
Driver, turn the caravan's wheels and squash the cur like the pimple that he is. Hahahaha.
"LMM" indeed. Rolling on the caravan's floor laughing my ass off. Hahahaha.
Tcheorge, zat vas a really gut von!
georgetheatheist said...
Well, well. What have we here? A man on a mission. A comic book crusader?
Let the truth be out. I was "Little Miss Muffet" mispellings and all. You fell into my trap, Satirical Ignorant One. Hahahahaha.
Driver, turn the caravan's wheels and squash the cur like the pimple that he is. Hahahaha.
"LMM" indeed. Rolling on the caravan's floor laughing my ass off. Hahahaha.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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Oh, gee, George. You're so smart. Talk about transparent satire. "Little Miss Muffet" was as subtle as anything else you've written.
I can't fight no more against such genius. That is, until your next idiotic posting. Keep the caravan going, you arrogant boob.
And gee, George. Picking out an alias of someone who is scared of spiders? I thought that you're so tough that you'd step on them.
You really need to walk away from the computer and see what life is like in the real world, instead of right-wing fantasy land.
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