NBA’s Steven Adams Asks NASA, Bill Nye to Explain Mid-Flight Damage
Meg Butler October 31, 2017
On Friday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder was flying from Minneapolis to Chicago when the Delta plane they were flying suffered serious damage.
Several of the players tweeted pictures of the Boeing 757-200’s flat nose. The team’s center, Steven Adams, wanted answers from science.
Hey @NASA @neiltyson @BillNye
We had a rough flight to say the least.30000 feet in the air.
Flying to chicago.What caused this? pic.twitter.com/uEVrEm7noi
— Steven Adams (@RealStevenAdams) October 28, 2017
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bax_0AaAqn7/
I guess we hit something? 30,000 feet up… pic.twitter.com/Rem9GmwRKq
— Josh Huestis (@jhuestis) October 28, 2017
But it was an airline spokeswoman who told CNET that “initial reports indicated a possible encounter with a bird… while on descent into Chicago.
For more on this story, go to CBS News.
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This looks like a classic bird strike. Maybe this will remind NASA that the first "A" stands for "Aeronautics"...