Tower we are going to be in the Hudson
We have had a bird strike and we are going to be in the Hudson. Prepare for impact!
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In keeping the thread "grounded" (so to speak).....
Besides birds into windshields - and things flying out of the back of pickups, flat-beds, etc. - here's one from when I was in the emergency business.
We get a call for a traffic accident on the (very) busy 405 Freeway in Orange County, CA
Find the LEO's and one vehicle (car) with a smashed front window on the Southbound side of the freeway.
Woman on the passenger side with moderate injuries.
No other vehicle around - so ask the Chippy if there's another vehicle involved - that somehow we've missed.
Ans.....
"The car was hit by a tire and wheel while traveling at about 65 mph".
Huh?
(Actually TWO vehicles were traveling at about 65mph "previously" - and then..... there was 3!)
The injured folks were traveling Southbound on the freeway.
A vehicle (car) on the other side of the freeway (Northbound) lost a wheel -at freeway speed- which bounced over the center divider and hit the on-coming Southbound car in the windshield.
(lots of near-miss witnesses).
Sure enough - there's a car about a 1/8 of a mile away on the shoulder of the Northbound side - with only a front brake drum on the pavement where the left front tire and wheel should be.
No injuries there. (Just maintenance issues?)
OK - so we got that part solved.......but we're scratching our heads wondering - - where is the (still) missing wheel???...:h
One of the guys points upwards..........
Yikes!
About 150 feet further down the road "impaled" on an *overhead* freeway sign is the errant tire and wheel!!
That wheel and tire had to have bounced about 30 feet *UP* to land "up there".
The folks on the "receiving end" were:
Unlucky - -or- - very lucky, as it could have been lots worse!
~
Besides birds into windshields - and things flying out of the back of pickups, flat-beds, etc. - here's one from when I was in the emergency business.
We get a call for a traffic accident on the (very) busy 405 Freeway in Orange County, CA
Find the LEO's and one vehicle (car) with a smashed front window on the Southbound side of the freeway.
Woman on the passenger side with moderate injuries.
No other vehicle around - so ask the Chippy if there's another vehicle involved - that somehow we've missed.
Ans.....
"The car was hit by a tire and wheel while traveling at about 65 mph".
Huh?
(Actually TWO vehicles were traveling at about 65mph "previously" - and then..... there was 3!)
The injured folks were traveling Southbound on the freeway.
A vehicle (car) on the other side of the freeway (Northbound) lost a wheel -at freeway speed- which bounced over the center divider and hit the on-coming Southbound car in the windshield.
(lots of near-miss witnesses).
Sure enough - there's a car about a 1/8 of a mile away on the shoulder of the Northbound side - with only a front brake drum on the pavement where the left front tire and wheel should be.
No injuries there. (Just maintenance issues?)
OK - so we got that part solved.......but we're scratching our heads wondering - - where is the (still) missing wheel???...:h
One of the guys points upwards..........
Yikes!
About 150 feet further down the road "impaled" on an *overhead* freeway sign is the errant tire and wheel!!
That wheel and tire had to have bounced about 30 feet *UP* to land "up there".
The folks on the "receiving end" were:
Unlucky - -or- - very lucky, as it could have been lots worse!
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