CO E145 Vs Pelican: Guess who wins?

[thewinchester]

As a warning, the linked article contains photos which some may find distressing.

Disclaimer over, now let's get to the story:

Embraer EMB-145 versus pelican photos
By Kieran Daly, FlightGlobal on August 25, 2010 9:29 AM

The heroic, but ultimately futile, attempts by the avian community to fight back against powered intruders continue. In this terrible scene a single white bird, cautiously identified by somebody-or-other as a pelican, loses (just) a bill-to-radome skirmish with an Embraer EMB-145 of Expressjet / Continental Express at Salt Lake City.
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According to the operator, while the airplane was on a downwind for a visual approach, it flew through a flock of large birds. One of the birds impacted the airplane near its nose, resulting in a section of skin about three feet long being folded back.

Needless to say the bird lost, however the plane didn't get off scot free as you'll see from the pics in the article. It'll be in the shop for a little while.

 

[NM]

Needless to say the bird lost, however the plane didn't get off scot free as you'll see from the pics in the article. It'll be in the shop for a little while.

Hmm, might be an ex-pelican but it still left behind a large bill

 

[thewinchester]

Hmm, might be an ex-pelican but it still left behind a large bill

Boom tish, nice one.

 

[straitman]

It could have been a lot worst when you consider that a pelican brought down an F-111 at Evans Head some years ago :!:

 

[samh004]

Bet that gave the pilot a shock, wouldn’t have been what they were expecting at all.