I'm sorry, your flight is delayed...
 

When it landed last night, it hit a coyote on the runway. We are still waiting for replacement parts. :eek: :eek: :eek:

:D This week in ART (Watertown, NY)

If that coyote was hit by a landing airplane, they can get all the replacement parts they want for the poor animal, but I don't think they're gonna help much!

Oh! You meant.....never mind. ;)

Why can't they just throw some spares on the next 747 due in at ART and get this problem fixed!?

Similarly, at London City one day an Aer Lingus 146 pulled onto the stand with an obvious (and very dead) seagull impaled on a radio antenna.

We were 30 minutes late away, some poor engineer (doubtless the most junior one) had to go up on top of the fuselage to remove it and sort the aerial out. Yukkkk !

So, would this be a good time to coin the term "airkill"? ;)

flying coyote? ...more like rampkill...

Little Watertown has an airport? Next time, fly into Ottawa or Syracuse. ;)

Yeah, but you can't fly cross-country to the other airports for $2. :D

Wildlife on the runway is a chronic problem in some parts of the world. Back in January, tsunami relief flights into Banda Aceh were interrupted after a 737 hit a cow on the runway.

I'm searching for the one a few months ago during monsoon flooding somewhere in India when a landing ATR-42 hit a crocodile on the runway :eek:

Yum! Gator, uh I mean, Crock-Ka-Bobs for all!