We had a birdstrike today, no damage. But last year, while inside the marker, a bird smacked the FO's window and cracked it right down the middle, by the time they pulled off the runway, it was shattered. Had the window shattered then, he would have been dead and the passenegers in jeopardy. In this case SMF is not moving, so the things near the field that attract birds need to be removed, period. Citing envirowhackism in this saving the birds over an MD-80 full of people on short final, is so typical of a whacko moonbat liberal tree hugger..
That's why I posted it. I heard about this last night and couldn't get over it. Coyotes? Deer? Geese? Ducks? Hello?
How much of an "environmental mess" would an MD80 smacking down short of the runway create?
I was furious about the beginning of the article. The guy no longer lives in this house, no longer farms this land - but thinks we should put his memories above the lives of the people flying in and out of SMF?
Self Centered Enviro-Whacks!