VP Biden's plane hits birds upon landing in California
Source: CNN
Air Force Two, a modified Boeing 757 airplane carrying Vice President Joe Biden, was involved in a bird strike while landing in Santa Barbara, CA on Thursday evening, an Air Force spokesman confirmed to CNN.
The plane landed safely as a precautionary measure and is currently being inspected to assess if there is any damage, said Lieutenant Gregg Johnson, a public affairs officer for the Air Forces 89th Airlift Wing the unit responsible for managing presidential air travel.
Lt. Johnson assured CNN that the strike did not cause an emergency landing and that all passengers, including the vice president, were safe at all times.
The Vice President left Santa Barbara this afternoon as scheduled, aboard an alternate U.S. Air Force aircraft, a spokesperson in the Office of the Vice President said, confirming the bird strike.
Read more: http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/20/vp-bidens-plane-hits-birds-upon-landing-in-california/
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)is right in the middle of a marsh restoration.
This is not good news.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)tawadi
(2,110 posts)Guess bird strikes are on the rise?
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=8629985
anti-alec
(420 posts)I read AVHerald.com daily and see all the information - and i see maybe one or two bird strikes a day.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)tawadi
(2,110 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Maine-ah
(9,902 posts)I wonder if there is another way to deal with the geese instead of killing them. Up here we have a small local airport that has been having issues with turkeys on the runway. Instead of killing them though they're talking about trapping and relocating the birds and putting up a higher fence. Of course there is a huge difference between a turkey and a goose in terms of how high they fly, but
I hope they can come up with a different solution.
surrealAmerican
(11,366 posts)n/t
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)probably are upset the plane didn't crash.
Welcome to Cali, VP Biden!
gateley
(62,683 posts)landed without incident.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)"Air Force Two, a modified Boeing 757 airplane carrying Vice President Joe Biden, was involved in a bird strike while landing in Santa Barbara"
They were already landing, but once they hit some birds the landing became a "precautionary measure".
Is this some new version of English that I haven't encountered before?
anti-alec
(420 posts)Probably PAN PAN call, not a mayday.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)In the OP it says:
The plane landed safely as a precautionary measure and is currently being inspected to assess if there is any damage,
I think it should read:
The plane landed safely AND as a precautionary measure
alp227
(32,068 posts)Air Force Two carrying Darth Cheney hit birds. This thread would probably take longer to load on my computer (and back in the 2000s, my computer couldn't handle as much HTML space).