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    Bird Strike Damage Photos

    You may have heard about the Air Tran Boeing 737 that was forced to return to Philadelphia last week after a bird strike. Bird strikes are relatively common so not too much notice was paid, even though the first officer suffered some cuts to his face from broken glass. However, it's amazing how much damage a 10-lb. bird can do to a 100,000-lb. airlines as these photos from a reader show. Despite the damage, the landing was uneventful and most of the 143 passengers were probably unaware of the extent of the damage.
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    What a great set of photo's of what damage these birds can do. My company
    Tactical Avian Predators is one of the few Falconry based Bird abatement companys. We have done several military airfeilds. I have worked at Travis AFB. here in california. The bird strikes were reduced by 97% after the falconry based program came on line!!!
    When I was a C-130 flight engineer for the Coast Guard. We injested a barn owl in a fully (over loaded) C-130 in our #2 engine. I dumped about 75K of jet fuel on downtown Sacremento.
    Check out our web site www.tacticalavianpredators.com

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      that wasn't one of your falcons that hit them was it Jim?

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      • #4
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        Looks more like a Grumman Goose hit them
        John 3728T

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