Re: A320 ditching in Hudson; disturbing question.

"JR Weiss" <jrweiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


A large bird could damage the prop so badly that you might have to reduce power
or shut down the engine to keep it from vibrating itself off its mounts. [Part
of] A smaller bird might make it through between blades and come through the
windshield regardless.

In any case, a bird through the windshield of a light airplane is likely to
result in a REAL emergency.


How about the large salmon that Ed Gauss [an old Alaska bush pilot] once
talked about. A fellow aviator had dumped fuel to climb and avoid Ed...and
succeeded. The salmon became Ed's passenger.


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