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Rabbit suspected in wildlife strike that forced United flight to divert back to DIA
Yahoo News ^
| 4/16/25
| Hanna Powers
Posted on 04/17/2025 12:43:38 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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Well Monty Python warned about that some 50 years ago.
To: DallasBiff
One little Bunny Rabbit could disable an entire, multi ton aircraft? I would have thought our planes were slightly more durable than that! What? Did he stand up on his fuzzy hind legs and refuse to give up his Den entry?
To: DallasBiff
Everyone’s first thought.
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:49:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DallasBiff
A Moose or a male Elk, that I could (sort of) understand.
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:50:07 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: DallasBiff
Was the flight out of Caerbannog, perchance?
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:51:08 PM PDT
by
A Formerly Proud Canadian
(Congrats to Canaduh's new Crime Minister, Marx Carney. Every circus needs a Carney!)
To: DallasBiff
Well, IF Jimmuh Caaarta was still alive, he could tell us first-hand just how vicious a rabbit can be!!!!
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:51:24 PM PDT
by
lgjhn23
("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:52:07 PM PDT
by
A Formerly Proud Canadian
(Congrats to Canaduh's new Crime Minister, Marx Carney. Every circus needs a Carney!)
To: DallasBiff
Remember this the next time that you feel insignificant. A 5 pound rabbit brought down a 90,000 pound Boeing 737.
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:52:47 PM PDT
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
To: DallasBiff
“I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn’t you? Oh, it’s just a harmless little bunny, isn’t it?”
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:54:36 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DFG
Of course you know....This means war!
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:56:01 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DallasBiff
The obvious suspect...Gremlins from the Kremlin.
To: DFG
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:56:21 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: DallasBiff
Where was the strike? Did the engine suck it up? Somewhere on the under carriage?
To: lee martell
One little Bunny Rabbit could disable an entire, multi ton aircraft? Lil bunny probably got sucked up off the ground in to one of those really important engines. Even if it wasn't badly damaged, they would turn around if it wasn't operating properly.
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:58:08 PM PDT
by
Turbo Pig
('To close with and destroy the enemy")
To: Resolute Conservative
I was thinking either it was dropped by an eagle and hit the plane at elevation, or dat wascally wabbit had some serious jump game going.
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posted on
04/17/2025 12:59:34 PM PDT
by
RainMan
((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
To: DallasBiff
That must have been bad-ass rabbit.
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posted on
04/17/2025 1:01:46 PM PDT
by
kawhill
To: DallasBiff
Flying wabbits - whoda thunk?
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posted on
04/17/2025 1:01:50 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
To: lee martell
Turbine aircraft engines are highly complex and sensitive machines.
At the RPM they are turning, once something is ingested (and it could be something a lot smaller than a rabbit) it can cause a domino kind of effect.
If the strike breaks a fan blade at the front, it is also going to go through the engine and the whole motor begins to self destruct.
Foreign object debris is and always hss been a constant thorn in the side of aviation.
Just for background, my 37 year career was in aviation maintenance.
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posted on
04/17/2025 1:02:40 PM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
04/17/2025 1:05:31 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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