Claim: Photographs show damage to an airplane caused by a mid-air collision with a goose.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, December 2004]
This is how a goose at 185 knots can ruin your day. The pilot was injured but was able to land the aircraft (Beech Baron) safely.
Origins: Birds (especially large ones) can certainly pose a hazard to air traffic, and many an aircraft has been severely damaged or downed by a bird's flying into an engine or through a cockpit windshield (injuring or killing the pilot). Although the photographs displayed above are real, they do not, however, show the results of a goose's colliding with a small plane.
These photographs depict the aftermath of a mid-air collision between two small planes, a
The Beech pilot reported to the Safety Board investigator that, at the time of the collision, he was in a cruise climb. His altitude was over 5,500 feet mean sea level (msl) but less than 6,500 feet msl. Less than a second prior to the collision he observed the right landing gear of an approaching airplane in his
On January 16, 2004, about 1415 Pacific standard time, a
Last updated: 23 April 2015