A NC woman was driving near Bryson City when an eagle made a bombing run on her car and with perfect precision, scored a hit with a cat. After the getting stopped She called 911 and began by, "you may not believe this,,,,,". The EMS operator told her she did believe her and they got big laugh in the end. It is bad enough before with the deer crashing into cars. Now they have air support! Click here for More.
I was working on my fence in Charleston SC, I heard a thud sound, it was a fish, looked up, a hawk and an eagle were near each other. Don't know which attacked the other, but one of them dropped the fish 10 ft from me. I also noticed the other birds getting away ss fast as possible.
ReplyDeleteDid it land on it's feet
ReplyDeleteNot sure, but it did expend the remaining "nine-lives".
DeleteMy dad had the same thing happen to his car but it was a vulture. He ended up having to get rid of the dar because of the smell
ReplyDeleteThe only recorded fish strike in aviation history occurred on March 30, 1987, when an Alaska Airlines 737-200 departing from Juneau International Airport collided with a fish that had been dropped by a bald eagle crossing its flight path.
ReplyDeleteThe fish struck the aircraft just behind the cockpit window, leaving a greasy spot and some scales but no structural damage.
The incident was widely reported, including on April Fools’ Day, which led to some skepticism, but the event is confirmed by multiple sources and eyewitness accounts from the pilots and airport officials.
There was another well-documented strike on an aircraft by a fish at MacDill AFB. A NOAA plane was on its take-off roll when an osprey, laden with its fresh catch, flew directly in front of the plane, went "OH, SHIT!", dropped its load, and the aircraft hit the fish. The mission/flight safely returned to the tarmac, the runway shut down, and a full-scale (Ha!) investigation was launched. The fish was found, the aircraft inspected for damage, reoprts written, and the rest is history.
DeleteI actually worked with the pilot before he became a pilot.
One fine day in beautiful North Dakota we were driving our 5-ton box truck down Highway 52 north of Minot, doing about 65, when a bird decided to visit our windshield going in a different direction. While it did not penetrate, it sure left a divot on our windshield...
ReplyDeleteThe Motor pool was pissed when we turned the truck back in, and the idiots wondered why I couldn't dodge the bird. Yeah, right, I had maybe 300 milliseconds to see the bird before the SPLAT. At 65+ mph.
Idiots.
Is the cat going to be ok?
ReplyDeleteThe dead cat DIDN'T bounce?
ReplyDeleteLifetime career glass industry expert here. 48 years of all things "glass" all over the planet. I commented in Instagram yesterday on this picture and here's what I'm seeing = (1) front standard auto windscreen of a common thickness of 2 layers of 3mm annealed with a common pvb laminate interlayer. Common as hell. (2) a large, heavy and VERY solid object I would compare to a concrete block such as can be bought from any DIY supplier of a wall-building 8 x 8 x 16 concrete block. Weighs about 20 Imperial pounds. (3) Dropped from a height to car of about 25 foot or so exact same as any common roadway bridge or walkway bridge. (4) Concrete block or similar would have his the glass at much greater than 10-10,000 psi force and shattered right through the lami glass. (Conclusion) For whatever reason the driver told police a bald face lie and this was not the action of a cat dropped by a bird. Does not matter the lie this was a very solid very heavy object so police should investigate why the driver is lying. Objects dropped off bridges over roadways already have a will kill occupants as we can investigate all over the USA.
ReplyDeleteI too do not believe this damage is from a cat. Everything has shown says it wasn't a cat. This doesn't even rise to the one in a trillion, the golden BB, er, cat.
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The last I looked, the FAA says there are over 19,000 birdstrikes per year.
My buddies and I witnessed a bald eagle bring a cat to a multi-year bald eagle nest while we were paddling. He tore that cat to shreds, ignoring us completely. We were speechless. And horrified.
ReplyDeleteSend repair bill to cat's owner. With the cat.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine got a turkey with his F-150. Free Thanksgiving dinner, only $650 damage to the truck.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of factors involved in the damage we see that we cannot factor into the equation due to missing information. I have seen less do more in terms of cat vs. windshield. There was a witness right behind the lady whose car was smashed that gave his account of the same story. However, I will say it does look more like a deer hit the windshield than a cat .
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DeleteI actually do believe it. I once watched a Redtail Hawk grab a full grown skunk, haul it up in the sky to what must have been 150 or 200 feet, and then drop it and follow it down. It was out in a wilderness area and I couldn't help but imagine what it would be like to be sitting around a campfire and suddenly "skunk bomb!"
ReplyDeleteI do believe it as well. I saw a Golden Eagle once fold up and dive into the water and come out with a pretty good bass. I also saw a Red Tail Hawk dive down into tall grass and come up with a green snake maybe 2' long and couldn't have weighed much. Still, both were spectacular sights.
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