, these turtles exhibit an attempt to evolve into flying creatures as the try to escape the man made global warming of New York by catching flights to more socialist countries where global warming is taken more seriously
On a serious note, the turtles are leaving one body of water in search of another.
Possible reasons:
1) No food, too many turtles.
2) Water sucks. Need clean water.
3) The turtles are GW alarmists, and wanted to stop air traffic to reduce CO2 emissions.
Brings back memories for me.
I hit a turtle in a Lear 35 landing at Hilton Head SC in June of 1990. I just clipped him with the left main gear and he shot up and tagged the underside of the wing, little bugger did almost $30,000 in sheet metal, paint damage including the required inspection related fees.
Scared the hell out of me, thought for sure I’d lost a tire.