Bird Strike
Dec. 12th, 2005 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneOne of the most feared events in flying small jets is a bird strike with said bird being ingested into an engine. This video shows such a strike, the bird is a blur in the center-to-left of the very first frames of the video.
IN-COCKPIT VIDEO: BIRD STRIKE
An AVweb reader recently passed along in-cockpit video of a Canada Air
Force CT-155 Hawk before, as, and after its in-flight ingestion of a
bird. The aircraft's heads up display is visible, the bird is visible,
as is the last image caught on camera -- a farmer's field. Synopsis of
the May 14, 2004 accident is available, here. The accident aircraft
carried a crew of two. One student and one instructor pilot. One pilot
survived the experience with minor injuries, the other was seriously
injured. View the video, from AVweb's NewsWire.
www.avweb.com/newspics/birdstrikecanada.wmv
IN-COCKPIT VIDEO: BIRD STRIKE
An AVweb reader recently passed along in-cockpit video of a Canada Air
Force CT-155 Hawk before, as, and after its in-flight ingestion of a
bird. The aircraft's heads up display is visible, the bird is visible,
as is the last image caught on camera -- a farmer's field. Synopsis of
the May 14, 2004 accident is available, here. The accident aircraft
carried a crew of two. One student and one instructor pilot. One pilot
survived the experience with minor injuries, the other was seriously
injured. View the video, from AVweb's NewsWire.
www.avweb.com/newspics/birdstrikecanada.wmv
