Dog posed runway hazard, was shot

Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | 11/1/02 | Gina Holt

[Skooz]

By Gina Holt
Enquirer contributor

A schnauzer who escaped from a travel kennel was shot as it ran across the runway at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Tuesday night.

The dog got out of its kennel, ran on the ramp and then out onto the runway about 5:20 p.m., said Ted Bushelman, director of communications for the airport.

"We did everything to try to catch him," he said. "He was running toward the runway. We just can't let it out on the runway. That was our heaviest time for take-offs."

Planes cannot take off when objects are on the runway because the engines tend to suck up everything around the plane.

"The headlines could have read: `Because airport police didn't shoot dog, 120 people died last night,' " Mr. Bushelman said.

"That's a sad situation," Nick Miller, spokesman for Comair said Thursday. "We're still trying to determine how the dog was able to get out of its kennel box."

He said the cause needs to be determined so that it doesn't happen again.

A Tennessee breeding service company flew the dog out of the Tri-City Airport in North East Tennessee.

"The animal had a final destination of Des Moines, Iowa," Mr. Miller said. "The dog was not with a family."

[Skooz]

"The headlines could have read: `Because airport police didn't shoot dog, 120 people died last night,' " Mr. Bushelman said.

A masterpiece of Clintonian rationalization.

[Lurking2Long]

MY DOG is a Schnauzer...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No plane would be damaged if it DID hit the poor thing.

The baggage handlers should have just let it run around (or away) until it got hungry or was found.

What morons!

[ambrose]

Friggin' trigger happy morons...

How about grabbing a piece of meat off one of the food trays and lure him back that way?

[Asclepius]

"We did everything to try to catch him," he said. "He was running toward the runway. We just can't let it out on the runway. That was our heaviest time for take-offs."

Was this a Muslim dog?

[Skooz]

Agreed. I wonder what would have happened if the pilot had announced something like: "We are delaying our take-off a few minutes so airport personnel can catch this little dog. Or, if you prefer, we can just kill the dog and take off on time."

What would the results of that vote be?

[cajungirl]

Like why didn't they use a tranquilizer dart for crying out loud. Who are these bozos anyway?

[Bush2000]

No plane would be damaged if it DID hit the poor thing.

Uh, dude. Do you realize what happens to aircraft engines if dogs pass through them?

[Thisiswhoweare]

Proably not, that would have been canine profiling. Was most likely the baggage handler's fault. We've all seen the care and caution they take loading cargo onto planes. They love their jobs you know.

[Hank Kerchief]

Agreed. I wonder what would have happened if the pilot had announced something like: "We are delaying our take-off a few minutes so airport personnel can catch this little dog. Or, if you prefer, we can just kill the dog and take off on time."

It's only a dog. Kill it. Why should any human being's, time, comfort, health, or money have to sacrificed even for a second for the sake of a dog. Good grief. Bunch of Peta morons.

[Chemist_Geek]

FOD Kills.

[Skooz]

Forgot your sarcasm tag......... :)

[Skooz]

FOD?

[ArrogantBustard]

Jet Engine: A device for sucking up anything in front of it, and attempting to blow it out the back.

Looks like Delta was ready befor the baggage handlers were...

[Chemist_Geek]

Foreign Object Damage. What happens to a jet engine when anything denser than rain drops enters the intake...

[inquest]

How about grabbing a piece of meat off one of the food trays and lure him back that way?

Doubt that woulda worked. ;-)

[ArrogantBustard]

No plane would be damaged if it DID hit the poor thing.

A black headed gull weighing just 10 ounces caused the catastrophic damage to this Boeing 737 engine. Secondary damage caused by shedding turbine blades can involve the severing of vital hydraulic lines, puncturing and ignition of fuel supplies and the depressurisation of the aircraft.

[LPStar]

So whose firearm was used to shoot this dog? Who had a firearm right handy?

[alwaysconservative]

As a dog-owner and dog-loving person, I found this appalling. But to these guys, what the hey, it was an inconvenience, so let's annihilate it! Seems to me that they do the same thing to babies, or "fetuses", as the jargon goes when they want to justify killing an inconvenience. Abortion has blunted our senses to the outrage of this kind of act.

For the record, I am an animal-loving pro-life (in case you hadn't guessed) NON PETA Republican.

[LasVegasMac]

FOD?

Foreign Object Damage.

It does not take much to trash the inside of jet engine. Lots of turbine blades spinning very rapidly. A rock, bolt, nut, hail (ice), dog, person - just knock one blade out of kilter a bit and, before ya know it, the engine has gutted itself.

LVM