Alaska Airlines 737-700 Plane Hit and Kills a Brown Bear While Landing

A Boeing 737-700 Alaska airlines jetliner strike a brownish-red bear while alighting Saturday dusk during Yakutat Airport, that caused repairs to a plane, and a animal was killed on Nov. 16, 2020.

The runway was privileged by airfield organisation members 10 mins before a moody was approaching to land. The organisation followed normal runway checks and procedures before a craft landed while it was dark. The organisation did not see any signs of wildlife during a check, though a pilots saw dual bears on a runway as a jet landed.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities orator Sam Dapcevich reported that a adult bear was accompanied by a suspicion to be a 2-year-old pup during a time of a accident, though a baby was not injured. None of a organisation members or passengers on house a craft were injured. While pushing into a parking area only before 6:30 pm, a pilots beheld a bear fibbing about 20 feet from a runway center.

The moody over from Cordova, Alaska, and was scheduled to stop in Juneau after withdrawal Yakutat. However, given a left engine cowling of a jet was damaged, a craft remained in Yakutat. Airport organisation members privileged a bear body from a runway.

Our upkeep technicians are operative to correct a plane, that will take a integrate of days, Alaska Airlines said.

Planes have reported attack animals like caribou, deer, geese, and other animals, though this is a initial time a craft strike a bear.

Written by Jessica Letcher
Edited by Cathy Milne-Ware

Sources:

Time: Alaska Airlines Passenger Jet Hits and Kills Brown Bear During Landing; Associated Press
ABC News: Jetliner hits brownish-red bear while alighting in southeast Alaska; Associated Press

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