I recently read the story of the Fish colliding with the Alaska Airlines 737 and it made me smile. Here is the link:

http://www.alaskasworld.com/NEWS/200..._fishstory.asp

In one of those "I cannot believe this is happening to me" moments, the two pilots watched the fish fall toward the aircraft as if in slow motion.

Morin would later estimate that the fish was about 12 to 18 inches long, and that it may have been a Dolly Varden, based on the fact that they were running at the time. Alaska Airlines’ Juneau customer service manager thought it might have been a cod.

Whatever the piscine interloper was, it impacted the aircraft with an almighty thump just behind the last cockpit window on the captain’s side — hard enough to leave a small dent.

After a short, somewhat stunned and silent interlude — while the pilots tried to comprehend what had transpired — they scanned the engine instruments and conducted a quick check of the flight controls.

Having determined that all controls and indications were normal, Morin chuckled and asked, "Did we just hit what I think we hit?"



Cheers.