Southwest attacks bird

FlightAware General
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: SWA762 Make/Model: B737 Description: 737
Date: 05/17/2008 Time: 1858

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
City: NORFOLK State: VA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 762, A BOEING 737 AIRCRAFT, WHILE ON APPROACH TO LAND, STRUCK A BIRD AT THE NUMBER TWO NGINE COWLING, NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED, NORFOLK, VA

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED

OTHER DATA
Activity: Business Phase: Approach Operation: Air Carrier

FAA FSDO: RICHMOND, VA (EA21) Entry date: 05/19/2008

As far as “no injuries reported,” I’m pretty sure you’d get a different opinion from the bird!

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No, you likely won’t get an opinion from the bird, unless you get the 3 sisters from “Charmed” to help you talk to its dead spirit… :smiling_imp:
Good thing it was the cowling tho, and not in the fan.

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“Good thing it was the cowling tho, and not in the fan.”

I doubt the bird cares…

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And based on the the fact it was a mid air collision, even the bird wouldn’t have met the definition of an injury.

I’d suspect it would have been chalked up as a fatality unless somehow some way, that bird survived that impact, which I honestly cannot conceive.

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Mmmmmmm. I love that show…

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Can’t imagine why…

Shouldn’t PA be in here in an uproar against a slight to his family?