United 737 Hits Kite On Final For DCA

What a not-Notstupid post. They shoot un-frozen chickens into engines as part of engine certification testing, since as you surely know, once in while a bird or two will take out an engine. Think miracle on the Hudson. A fan blade liberating the fan disk will take out the other blades, rendering the engine less than in ideal running condition.

As for the kite, I’m sure you couldn’t wrap your head around the concept of the kite being ingested into an engine oil cooler duct. Yes, the incident was during landing but could have been during takeoff too.

Not arrested?
What motivation is there to not do it again?
What is the strength of publicity that warns others of the hazard?

100 feet AGL?

If you mean clearance from the park surface, that is very low.
Not a place to do many things.

(Your sentence structure is awkward.)

Give way to stupidity?

Hell, you can hit a baseball 100’ in the air too. Point is that baseball and kites are normal in parks and 100’ is too low for a plane over populated areas.

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The purpose is testing resistance to birds thus frozen would make no sense, if want stronger bird-like hit try duck or Canada Goose (heftier that eagle and buzzard) like an airliner .inadvertently tested in New York.

Good point about baseball, but keep in mind where the ‘park’ is - fight under final flight path, solution is to stop calling airport property a park.

The approach for 19 at Regan shows planes should be at 365’ above the ground. Why the plane was down to 100’ even before the runway environment is the problem.

The southern most part of Gravelly Point is approximately 1360 feet north of the runway 19 threshold. Based on a 3.16 degree glide slope, that would put an aircraft 75 feet AGL…
Given b=1360 and ∠α=3.16°,
a = 75.08341

365 feet AGL would be 6611 feet from the threshold…
Given a=365 and ∠α=3.16°,
b = 6,611.31359

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