US Airways Express - 3; Mother Nature - 0

[ITRADE]

Well, you all heard about the Express aircraft (Colgan B-1900) that met up with a moose up at BHB.[BR][BR]You read here on [A href=http://www.usaviation.com/]www.usaviation.com[/A] about the Allegheny Dash-8 that minced up some geese in New York.[BR][BR]Now, I've heard that a Piedmont Dash-8 got introduced to a deer on the highspeed or another taxiway at CLT. Info on this latest attempt at speed catering?

 

[lindy]

It was 36L on Friday, the 13th. Took out either the nose gear or one of the mains. Runway was closed for at least an hour. Several flights had to divert.

 

[AtlanticBeach]

Oh great.

Now the people from PETA will be boycotting Express.

 

[propjok]

From what i understand on ldg. the a/c mains touched the runway and before the nose was lowered the dear struck the nosewheel. a/c had extensive damage to nose gear and will be ots for a bit

 

[airbrush]

Nice buck, though.....looked like about a 10-point.

 

[ITRADE]

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[BLOCKQUOTE][BR]----------------[BR]On 12/18/2002 8:33:06 PM lindy wrote:
[P]It was 36L on Friday, the 13th. Took out either the nose gear or one of the mains. Runway was closed for at least an hour. Several flights had to divert. [/P]----------------[/BLOCKQUOTE]
[P][/P]1 hour? Is that how long it took to get catering out to the runway? [BR][BR]The report says that the deer was struck near touchdown point near E3.[BR][BR]Did that also result in the closure of Runway 5? I would have figured they would have used 5 for arrivals and 36R for departures - or 5 for departures and 36R for arrivals.[BR][BR]

 

[flyin2low]

[FONT color=#cccccc]"Did that also result in the closure of Runway 5? I would have figured they would have used 5 for arrivals and 36R for departures - or 5 for departures and 36R for arrivals."[BR][BR][/FONT][FONT color=#000000]Yeah right. This is CLT you're talking about. I've never seen any efficiency there.[/FONT]

 

[High Iron]

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On 12/18/2002 9:05:10 PM propjok wrote:

From what i understand on ldg. the a/c mains touched the runway and before the nose was lowered the dear struck the nosewheel. a/c had extensive damage to nose gear and will be ots for a bit
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Yes. Even though the NLG retracts fwd, it was facing aft, wedged under the A/C. Had to be tremenous force to do that. Good sized buck ( 10-12 pointer ) was actually cut in half.

 

[exagony]

I'll bet the ML MEC scoped the PDT pilots out of the Bambi burgers.

 

[ITRADE]

Where's the deer??

 

[geo1004]

It's being served on tonight's CLT-LGW flight as an entree in Envoy Class.

Mmmmmmm. Venison!

 

[flyin2low]

Picture of Nose Gear.[BR][BR]