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Originally Posted by smurfblu13
wow impressive, but I don't think that quite conveys it enough lol.
Ok next question the single worst experience I have had with flying. When being taxied to the runway a plane a good ways ahead of us took off through a flock of birds so we had to sit on the tarmac for I think an hour and a half while they cleaned the runway off. How often does this happen?
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There is no exact answer. Depeding where you are, the time of year, how busy the airport is etc will effect bird strikes. That must have been a huge flock of birds for the runway to be closed for that long. Most times a vehicle will go out on the runway and do a check for any airplane parts that may have fallen off, and then pick of the birds/pieces. They try and keep track of what kind of bird/s it was.