CURLYHEADBOY From Italy, joined Feb 2005, 921 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2452 times:
Wow! It appears that the captain's yoke is damaged on the right side... I've seen the pictures of this airplane before but never those of the cockpit! Amazing what a bird can do when impacted at very high speed! The Captain really risked to get hurt!
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AAR90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3410 posts, RR: 50 Reply 8, posted (8 years 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2248 times:
Quoting CURLYHEADBOY (Reply 1): It appears that the captain's yoke is damaged on the right side...
The yoke was not damaged as the bird that penetrated the cockpit pressure bulkhead never made it past the instrument panels. The "displaced" panel you see was simply removed from its mounted position for investigators to document the damage. This was done very shortly after the plane landed.
LMP737 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (8 years 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2240 times:
Reminds me of the MD-80 that hit a cormorant climbing out of ORD last year. Difference being that the only part hit was the #1 engine. Very messy.
About three years ago we had a 737 that sucked up birds into BOTH engines. Fortunately they must have been starlings or some other small bird because there were no other strikes to the rest of the aircraft. Luckily for me someone else was assigned to work on the aircraft taht night. He spent a good part of the might cleaning bird gute off the N1 fan and the bypass.
CURLYHEADBOY From Italy, joined Feb 2005, 921 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (8 years 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2237 times:
Quoting AAR90 (Reply 8): The yoke was not damaged as the bird that penetrated the cockpit pressure bulkhead never made it past the instrument panels. The "displaced" panel you see was simply removed from its mounted position for investigators to document the damage. This was done very shortly after the plane landed.
Thanks for this clarification AAR90, I was thinking what kind of bird could penetrate the cockpit and tear away the instrument panel... what you say makes much more sense.
Those pictures remind me of that old urban legend about the frozen chickens
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It appears that the captain's yoke is damaged on the right side... I've seen the pictures of this airplane before but never those of the cockpit! Amazing what a bird can do when impacted at very high speed! The Captain really risked to get hurt!
what you say makes much more sense.
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