Kingfisher Plane Hits Dog During Takeoff, Skids Off Runway
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Kingfisher Plane Hits Dog on Bangalore Runway During Takeoff
By Anand Krishnamoorthy
March 28 (Bloomberg) -- A Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. aircraft hit a dog during takeoff at Bangalore's airport in southern India, causing the propeller plane's nose landing-gear to collapse.
Two of the 25 passengers also suffered sprains while evacuating the plane after the incident yesterday, the airline said in an e-mailed statement late last night. The Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72-500 was flying to Hyderabad.
``It's most unfortunate that the dog menace at airports in India still persists,'' Vijay Mallya, the airline's chairman, said in the statement. [
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How big was this dog to casue such damage? I've seen pictures of a King Air that hit a deer and he damage wasn't that great...Didn't a cow recently get hit by a passenger plane in India? Imagine the ATIS at those airports? "Various dogs and cows wondering around taxiway Alpha."
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Originally Posted by T-Bird76
How big was this dog to casue such damage?
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They Killed Cliford the Big Red Dog! THE SORROW!!!
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poor dog :( I wonder how it just ended up on the runway like that..