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Tornado GR.4 runs off runway at Newcastle

 
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Cherskiy



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:38 pm    Post subject: Tornado GR.4 runs off runway at Newcastle Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good Picture. Poor bird. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems to be the day for it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2506024/Two-planes-collide-at-Manchester-Airport.html
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Good Picture. Poor bird. Laughing


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.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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