I think this occurred over Texas...Glad I no longer need to fly.
Delta Flight 1889 sits at the Denver International Airport after hail damaged its nose cone ...
Tagline for a Denver flight that also recently was damaged severely. (Google images, “hail damage nose cone” )
I think this occurred over Texas...Glad I no longer need to fly.
Sure glad I don’t have to fly in-out of Denver anymore.
Sometimes very scary
Nothing a tube of Spot Putty and some 1200 Wet/Dry paper won’t fix.
Windshield is completely shattered.
Maybe one of the new “diversity hired” traffic controllers could not distinguish where to not send an aircraft.
More background information, and many other pictures of other strikes: Both high-altitude bird strikes, low altitude bird strikes, and nose-cone hail damage are more common than I thought.
https://www.metabunk.org/explained-why-planes-get-dented-nosecones-its-mostly-birds.t9208/
Amazing how the turbofans are undamaged. I don’t get how that is possible. Why aren’t the engines messed up too?
Watch the animated flight path at the link. Judging from the picture, it appears to be a VERY good thing that the pilot successfully avoided the worst spots.
Wow!!! Glad I wasn’t on that flight. Awesome work by the pilot and co pilot.
I think it’s a recording of the event that occurred earlier, not “real time” as in “right now”.
It was an AirBus. A real miracle it survived at all.
We were in his brand-new Trans AM. We hit a bad ass thunderstorm with hail near Desert Center.
Totaled the car. Every square inch of the top surface of the car was dented. The windshield was smashed but intact.
It was a very scary experience because there was no place to get under cover.
There was 8" of hailstones on the ground by the time the storm moved on. Looked like wintertime in the middle of summer.
So much for our long, holiday weekend. We spent most of it in a gas station in Desert Center waiting for his brother to rescue us and tow the car.
I am surprised the article didn’t blame “climate change” for the hail.
From the radar/path pictures it looks like they may have flown under an anvil, with hail blowoff from the tops of a strong cell. You don’t have to fly into the cell to get damage if you’re downwind from a strong cell — the hail goes out the top and downwind, sometimes for many miles, in the dozens of miles, perhaps.
They couldn’t choose an upwind path around them but looks like they took the wrong hole through the line — should have taken the one further south.
Once they lost the radar the danger may have been even worse, they were flying blind unless they emerged from the clouds and could see the weather.
There are at least three documented cases of jetliners breaking up flying through storms, this could have been much worse, as they avoided the strongest areas of the cells.
No pics of the leading edges but I imagine that’s going to employ the sheet metal shop for weeks, or more!