The same thing happened on the High Plains several years ago when a B-1
doing low-level practice runs flew through a kettle of Swainson's Hawks.
Dead birds, dead planes. In the east, at several airports, I know they
woory much about gulls in such instances. RK

On 28 Sep 1995, CHRISTINE W. MAACK wrote:

> About the same time that Newt's plane was sucking in a goose, a flock of Canada
> geese was observed here crossing the runway in front of a departing AWACS radar
> plane at Elmendorf Air Force Base. The number 1 engine was then observed popping
> and sparking. The plane crashed and burned in the woods off the end of the
> runway with none of the 24 onboard surviving. Thirteen dead geese were retrieved
> from the runway right afterwards. Nothing has been proved yet, but there may
> have been a "fatal flock." Newt was luckier than he perhaps realizes.
>
> Chris Maack
> Bird Treatment & Learning Center
> Anchorage, AK
> 73201.3124 at compuserve.com
>
>

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