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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: Tornado GR.4 runs off runway at Newcastle |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7543846.stm
I took a better shot than the "through the fence" one on the BBC website:
Sent it to the BBC but they haven't used it. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Good Picture. Poor bird. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | Good Picture. Poor bird. |
If you look closely, you'll see that the poor bird seems to have smashed through the right hand quarter of the windscreen. Hope the pilot's okay - if he was injured in the strike, it might explain why he had problems putting the jet down. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19372 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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They should have used your picture, far better.
I remember when I worked at NCL we had a bird strike 2 days in a row on different types of aircraft. The first officer came into our passenger office and related the tale of the one he was involved in. He told us the captain ducked at the time and when he afterwards asked him why he said he had been on a Shackleton flight (he was ex RAF) where the captain had been decapitated by a bird crashing through the windscreen........... <yikes>
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