Poor Preflight Planning

Moral of the story - when you are over max gross takeoff weight, you might not clear the obstacle at the end of the runway!

Eagle Lugging a Deer Head Causes Outage
By Associated Press

January 30, 2007, 7:30 AM EST
JUNEAU, Alaska -- About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.

"You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario," said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. "This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill." The bird, weighed down by the deer head, apparently failed to clear the transmission lines, she said. A repair crew found the eagle dead, the deer head nearby.

The power was out for less than 45 minutes Sunday.

That's hysterical. I assume he was beak heavy.

So, is the NTSB going to investigate? I bet it was pilot... Err.. Bird error.