What do you think hit this jetliner @ 30,000 feet???

[WhatExit?]

A plane carrying NBA team the Oklahoma City Thunder from Minneapolis to Chicago apparently struck a bird early Saturday when it was landing, damaging the plane, Delta Airlines said.

A bird at 30,000 feet? At night?

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

It is a coverup. They hit the hard drive from Stephen Paddock’s laptop.

 

[shan]

A plane carrying NBA team the Oklahoma City Thunder from Minneapolis to Chicago apparently struck a bird early Saturday when it was landing, damaging the plane, Delta Airlines said.

A bird at 30,000 feet? At night?

It landed at 30,000 ft??

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

It landed at 30,000 ft??

I thought the same thing.

 

[Icky]

It landed at 30,000 ft??

You never saw the Avengers?

 

[Ziggy]

Some pilots call other airplanes birds[emoji854]
:hmmm:

 

[rvrrun]

Someone catapulted an Emu?

 

[Q4mtxUS]

Assuming the aircraft was in the landing configuration at say 150 mph, a bird would?ve exploded like a water filled balloon and left a bloody mess so, it doesn?t look like barn owl strike.

Paddocks (or, Clinton?s) hard drive has sharp edges and would have torn the radome causing a bit more damage :yikes

A drone strike would also do gnarly damage just like the hard drive.

The only thing it could be is another jetliners radome that fell off at 30k altitude and striking this aircraft

 

[pronstar]

Someone clearly punched that plane in the nose.

Duh!

 

[RiverDave]

I'd guess it was a drone or a man made object if you asked me.. no blood from the bird.

 

[pronstar]

Maybe it was a basketball...

 

[milkmoney]

I think the nose jus caved in. Like a malfunction of the plane. [emoji202]

 

[buck35]

Thats a very symmetrical dent in the nose, did they hit a bowling ball. :eek

 

[rvrrun]

Further proof of Supermans existence.

 

[Cray Paper]

A plane carrying NBA team the Oklahoma City Thunder from Minneapolis to Chicago apparently struck a bird early Saturday when it was landing, damaging the plane, Delta Airlines said.

A bird at 30,000 feet? At night?

As a pissed of Seattle Super Sonic fan, I say karma.

 

[t&y]

I'm thinking that pilot ran into the back of another plane on the tarmack and the story is all screwed up.

 

[pronstar]

One thing is for sure:
We're gonna mindfuck the shit out of every possibility [emoji106]

 

[Gramps]

I'd guess it was a drone or a man made object if you asked me.. no blood from the bird.

no birds at 30,000

 

[Trash]

Who said it was at 30,000 feet? Answer: One of the players.
How does the player know what altitude it happened at? Answer: He doesn't.

This was a bird strike in during the approach phase. They don't always leave blood and guts. It wasn't at 30,000 feet.

 

[coolchange]

Frozen butterball fell out of cargo plane.

 

[GRADS]

They said it was a bird strike but I seriously doubt it happened at 30,000' unless the bird was wearing an oxygen tank. :rolleyes

 

[Cray Paper]

Reminds me of an old Boeing joke. A EU bullet train engineer contacted Boeing about how to test windshields. The Boeing engineer told the person asking the question that they use turkeys in a canon. The EU engineer emailed back later, "dam, what material does Boeing use for windshields, we are having disastrous results with frozen turkeys". The Boeing engineer said "who said anything about frozen?".

 

[4Waters]

I found video of the accident.
[video=youtube_https;i5qpZZBlrq8]https://youtu.be/i5qpZZBlrq8[/video]

 

[TrollerDave]

"Maybe it was a meteor"

 

[Tank]

Something big. Because this was a 22, 9mm, 44, 45, 223, 556 and slug.

 

[GRADS]

"Maybe it was a meteor"

I got news for you, that's a big old frozen piece of shit!

 

[pronstar]

Who said it was at 30,000 feet? Answer: One of the players.
How does the player know what altitude it happened at? Answer: He doesn't.

Some of those players are REALLY tall tho...[emoji12]

 

[Vmjtc3]

Reminds me of an old Boeing joke. A EU bullet train engineer contacted Boeing about how to test windshields. The Boeing engineer told the person asking the question that they use turkeys in a canon. The EU engineer emailed back later, "dam, what material does Boeing use for windshields, we are having disastrous results with frozen turkeys". The Boeing engineer said "who said anything about frozen?".

AKA The rooster booster.....

 

[WhatExit?]

2 words: turkey & frozen and only 1 response is appropriate...

[video=youtube;lf3mgmEdfwg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg[/video]

 

[bk2drvr]

A plane carrying NBA team the Oklahoma City Thunder from Minneapolis to Chicago apparently struck a bird early Saturday when it was landing, damaging the plane, Delta Airlines said.

A bird at 30,000 feet? At night?

Lightning!

My sister has been a flight attendant for 30 years and has been in a plane that took a lightning strike to the nose and it caved the nose in on the plane.

I'm going with a lightning strike.

 

[rmarion]

https://business.weather.com/blog/flying-in-convective-weather-and-why-you-shouldnt

 

[underpressure]

I've seen detailed videos of a bird strike on an antenna radome...it's an ugly mess...

I'm not buying bird strike causing this...but no idea what it might have been?

 

[was thatguy]

 

[Wheeler]

They said it was a bird strike but I seriously doubt it happened at 30,000' unless the bird was wearing an oxygen tank. :rolleyes

The followings are 10 highest flying birds in the world.
8 Bar-tailed Godwit ? 20000 feet.
7 Mallard ? 21000 feet.
6 Bearded Vulture ? 24000 feet.
5 Alpine Chough ? 26500 feet.
4 Whooper Swan ? 27000 feet.
3 Bar-headed Goose ? 29000 feet.
2 Common Crane ? 33000 feet.
1 Ruppell's Griffon Vulture ? 37000 feet.

 

[96scarab]

Lightning!

My sister has been a flight attendant for 30 years and has been in a plane that took a lightning strike to the nose and it caved the nose in on the plane.

I'm going with a lightning strike.

I've been an Airline mechanic for 23 years. I have never seen a lightning strike cave in the radome. If lightning strikes it, it travels thru the airplane and burns rivets along the way and blows out the static wicks in the tail. A couple times a year I see a bird strike cause damage like that and leave no blood or feathers behind..

 

[500bbc]

Asshole kids dropped another rock off of an overpass.

 

[wsuwrhr]

A plane carrying NBA team the Oklahoma City Thunder from Minneapolis to Chicago apparently struck a bird early Saturday when it was landing, damaging the plane, Delta Airlines said.

A bird at 30,000 feet? At night?

??

 

[wsuwrhr]

The followings are 10 highest flying birds in the world.
8 Bar-tailed Godwit ? 20000 feet.
7 Mallard ? 21000 feet.
6 Bearded Vulture ? 24000 feet.
5 Alpine Chough ? 26500 feet.
4 Whooper Swan ? 27000 feet.
3 Bar-headed Goose ? 29000 feet.
2 Common Crane ? 33000 feet.
1 Ruppell's Griffon Vulture ? 37000 feet.

Top 10. Noted.

 

[LHC Kirby]

The followings are 10 highest flying birds in the world.
8 Bar-tailed Godwit ? 20000 feet.
7 Mallard ? 21000 feet.
6 Bearded Vulture ? 24000 feet.
5 Alpine Chough ? 26500 feet.
4 Whooper Swan ? 27000 feet.
3 Bar-headed Goose ? 29000 feet.
2 Common Crane ? 33000 feet.
1 Ruppell's Griffon Vulture ? 37000 feet.

I?m guessing #9 & #10 both hit the plane - therefore no longer on the list, perhaps the last two in existence?

 

[spectra3279]

I'm thinking they hit some frozen shit the plane in front dumped out of their shitter

 

[Wheeler]

I'm thinking they hit some frozen shit the plane in front dumped out of their shitter

They missed #wsuwrhr by a mile. It was a good try though.

"A rare incident of falling blue ice causing damage to the roof of a home was reported on October 20, 2006 in Chino, California."

 

[Trash]

https://business.weather.com/blog/flying-in-convective-weather-and-why-you-shouldnt

That was referencing convective activity which was not the case in this event.

 

[RiverDave]

I've been an Airline mechanic for 23 years. I have never seen a lightning strike cave in the radome. If lightning strikes it, it travels thru the airplane and burns rivets along the way and blows out the static wicks in the tail. A couple times a year I see a bird strike cause damage like that and leave no blood or feathers behind..

You just made me never want to fly again.. (seriously)

 

[Heylam]

Pretty sure that plane was hit by a ?conspiracy ?. This is RDP of course.

 

[DaveC]

Maybe it was one of the players baby mommas :rolleyes

Hell have no fury..........:eek

 

[Flying_Lavey]

Chuck Norris had money on a game they lost. He politely told them to knock that shit off.

 

[wsuwrhr]

They missed #wsuwrhr by a mile. It was a good try though.

"A rare incident of falling blue ice causing damage to the roof of a home was reported on October 20, 2006 in Chino, California."

That is pretty rough there buddy. Considering I am in Cables flight pattern and ONT when shit is going bad, that is pretty rough thing to say.

 

[Old Texan]

A Klingon Bird of Prey decloaked before they could hang a hard left......BNAG!:yikes

 

[Spudsbud]

I thought turkeys could fly.

Mr. Carlson WKRP

 

[Wheeler]

That is pretty rough there buddy. Considering I am in Cables flight pattern and ONT when shit is going bad, that is pretty rough thing to say.

I can see now that is was pretty shitty thing to say.