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20 Years Ago: Plane Collides With Fish  
User currently offlineWestWing From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2112 posts, RR: 8
Posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 6666 times:

On March 30, 1987 an Alaska Airlines 737 taking off from JNU had a mid-air collision with a fish.

The plane fared much better than the fish, but did not escape a slight dent.

An eagle that was carrying the fish had dropped the fish on the plane. The eagle evidently lived to pass on genes to a descendant that would one day try to carry the head of a deer.

A nice retelling of the original story may be found here.


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User currently offlineL-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29349 posts, RR: 62
Reply 1, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 6644 times:

Damm has it been twenty years already?


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User currently offlineWestWing From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2112 posts, RR: 8
Reply 2, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 6548 times:

Here's L-188's thread about the eagle's descendant:
http://airliners.net/discussions/non_aviation/read.main/1513707/
 Smile


The best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago. The second best time is today.
User currently offlineANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 6527 times:

 rotfl 

I would like to have been a "fly on the wall" when the AS pilot reported to JNU that he'd his a fish on Climb-out.

I can hear it in the tower at JNU now . . .

"Say again AS61, you say you hit a FISH??"  faint 

User currently offlineTonyban From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 311 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 6016 times:

That sounds rather FISHY !!!  Smile

User currently offlineGoodbye From Australia, joined Jan 2001, 908 posts, RR: 12
Reply 5, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 5518 times:

Haha, I had never heard of this! Story was great, thanks for sharing  Smile

User currently offlineBlackbird1331 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1892 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 4914 times:

I am really having a bad day, I love fish and my best friend is a deer's head.


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User currently offlineZakHH From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 4232 times:

Hilarious story. I was already wondering what motivated them for this paintscheme:


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But that story explains...  rotfl 
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