Who woulda thunk?!

[marc985]

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: UPS28 Make/Model: B757 Description: B-757
Date: 11/03/2005 Time: 2325

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
City: COLORADO SPRINGS State: CO Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT, UPS28, A B757, ENROUTE FROM SDF TO MHR, STRUCK A GOOSE AT FL360.
ACFT DESCENDED TO FL280, DUE TO THE WINDSHIELD BEING CRACKED AND CONTINUED
ON TO DESTINATION. PILOT DID NOT DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. OVER COLORADO
SPRINGS, CO


FL360! Wow

[JimmiG]

That's one high flying goose Is that even possible? I mean geese also need oxygen..

[neerajpendse]

wow! something's weird here...

- Neeraj.

[CBris]

Colorado?

Mountainous?

Maybe the goose got itself caught in wave winds. It may well have been log dead, just gliding in climbing air? At that height it must've been frozen solid already...

phew!

[jwenting]

It was a Grumman Goose that had been modified by them there space aliens

[marc985]

hehe guys....i was skeptical too....then i did some burd research and yes! certain types of goose and crane can fly that high!

[CBris]

hehe guys....i was skeptical too....then i did some burd research and yes! certain types of goose and crane can fly that high!

[marc985]

The altitude record is held by a Rüppell's griffon Gyps rueppelli, a vulture with a 10-foot wingspan. On November 29, 1975 one was sucked into a jet engine 37,900 feet above the Ivory Coast in West Africa. The plane was damaged but landed safely. What the bird was doing up so high I have no idea, since this species is not migratory.

The bird that flies highest most regularly is the bar-headed goose Anser indicus, which travels directly over the Himalayas en route between its nesting grounds in Tibet and winter quarters in India. They are sometimes seen flying well above the peak of Mt. Everest at 29,035 ft. Birds have some natural advantages for getting oxygen at high altitudes, in particular an arrangement of air sacs that allows them to circulate inhaled air twice through the lungs with each breath--much more efficient than the in-and-out system used by mammals. Bar-headed geese have special adaptations that make them even better at high-flying than other birds. They have a special type of hemoglobin that absorbs oxygen very quickly at high altitudes, and their capillaries penetrate especially deep within their muscles to transfer oxygen to the muscle fibers.



amazing stuff if u ask me

[CBris]

Nature never ceases to amaze me! We are so clever, but every time we think we are sooooo clever, Mother N comes by and teaches us better!

That is absolutely amazing info!

[davidvoogd]

If I recall correctly, there is a type of swan in Russia that flies up to 60,000 feet.

[jaapverduijn]

"(...) there is a type of swan in Russia that flies up to 60,000 feet (...)"

Naaah... what they saw was Captain Sim, having been kicked into orbit by a riotous crowd of disgruntled customers.

Jaap Verduijn.

[Ian P]

And the relevance of that post to the thread was...?

Rather worryingly, I have actually recently been shown a picture of a flying pig. It was rather large and being hoisted out of a slurry pit by a helicopter.

I don't think it got above more than about 10 feet AMSL, though so I think the avians of the world still have the height record.

Ian P.

[jaapverduijn]

"(...) And the relevance of that post to the thread was...? (...)"

About the same as yours, Ian, about the same as yours.

Be well!

Jaap.

[marc985]

it seems to me that the majority of the people found the fact thats a bird was so high as rather incredible, and amazing....also aviation related.....but oh well...you have your opinion