Leezyjet From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 4041 posts, RR: 55 Reply 2, posted (5 years 7 months 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 11229 times:
Yep, it was posted with-in hours of it happening and resulted in a long thread about it. Try running a search for Thomsonfly 757 Birdstrike and you should find it
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Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 4744 posts, RR: 6 Reply 8, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 10298 times:
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Lehpron From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 7028 posts, RR: 22 Reply 10, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 10148 times:
How is it that a bird strike is all cool, but if a human strike occurs, its a bad thing?
"Because its a bird" is not a reasonable excuse to celebrate death, IMO.
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F9Animal From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 4736 posts, RR: 30 Reply 11, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 10063 times:
Wow.... Great job by the flight crew. Just when I was going to start a thread about pilots being overpaid. LOL! JUST KIDDING! Situations like that would make me happy to see pilots and flight attendants getting paid well for their jobs. Great video, thanks for sharing.
BoeingFixer From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 490 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 6987 times:
I hate to add what some would think as a negative remark but the flight crew were just doing what they are trained and paid to do, nothing more. It's obvious that this training paid off but to think that it takes a super-human amount of skill to cope with an engine failure after V1 is just crazy. This is why flying, for the most part, is the safest form of transportation in the world. Pilot training along with very well designed aircraft and engines, allow things like this bird ingestion to happen without incident.
Lemurs From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 1439 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 6233 times:
Quoting Lehpron (Reply 10): "Because its a bird" is not a reasonable excuse to celebrate death, IMO.
Just because you like birds is not a reasonable excuse to equate a human life with one of a bird. I'm not sayin anyone should glory in gore of any kind involving a living creature, but trying to equate animals with humans is just as disgusting.
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Alberchico From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 2685 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 6072 times:
Quoting Airfoilsguy (Reply 13): Quoting Lehpron (Reply 10):
How is it that a bird strike is all cool, but if a human strike occurs, its a bad thing?
that is a legitimate point. You could argue that a human life is the same as a animal life thus maiking this vid a horiffic thing to watch....
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Dmanmtl From Canada, joined May 2006, 92 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4288 times:
Wery interesting. One question comes to mind: Is tha engine now scrapped? Or does it simply need to be repaired? Amazing something as small as a bird could do that much damage...what would the price tag on an engine like that be? $500k or more?
BoeingBoy From Bouvet Island, joined Jul 2007, 149 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3910 times:
Quoting Lehpron (Reply 10): How is it that a bird strike is all cool, but if a human strike occurs, its a bad thing?
"Because its a bird" is not a reasonable excuse to celebrate death, IMO.
That is correct. The bird did not have the right of way - failure to stop for approaching larger bird. Failure to use caution when approaching intersection. Failure to use caution in known high traffic areas. The BIRD loses. RIP
What's "people like me"? This is the internet, there is no tone or body language; unless you're assuming based on your experiences which I obviously will not know, I did not give you enough information to decide what kind of "people" I am.
Quoting Lemurs (Reply 16): Just because you like birds is not a reasonable excuse to equate a human life with one of a bird.
I don't like like birds, but you missed my point.
Quoting Lemurs (Reply 16): but trying to equate animals with humans is just as disgusting.
Like I said, you missed my point (which was odd as I typed it in plain sight)
Here's a conundrum: Everyday in the world a kid and a pet is lost, yet finding/saving our pets are just as important as our children, why?
The meaning of life is curiosity; we were put on this planet to explore opportunities.
25 BoeingBoy: Because some STUPID people value their PETS more than their CHILDREN
26 BoeingBoy: That would make the engine 5 mil - expensive 172 IMHO
27 Airfoilsguy: Very, last I heard, and this was a while ago, is that an engine for a 747 was about 7 million and 15 million for an A380
28 Farcry: Hi all. Nighthawk, the only answer I can come up with is this. In the UK, (as I'm sure you know), if you were seen with a gorgeous female your mates
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