Edgar Castro
Super Moderator
Fuente: AvHerald
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N615AS performing flight AS-66 from Corduva,AK to Yakutat,AK (USA), landed on Yakutat's runway 11 when the captain felt an impact at the left hand side of the aircraft. The aircraft rolled out without further incident, turned around to backtrack the runway to the apron when the crew saw a dead brown bear on the runway.
A post flight inspection revealed impact damage to the left hand engine's (CFM56) inlet and cowling.
Alaska's Department of Transport airport staff had inspected and cleared the runway about 10 minutes prior to landing of the flight and had not noticed any wildlife in the vicinity. The aircraft hit a female brown bear and killed the mother, her cub estimated about 2 years old remained uninjured.
The airline reported the captain felt an impact at the left hand side during rollout and later saw the dead bear on the runway about 20 feet off the runway center line while taxiing to the terminal.
The aircraft was scheduled to fly Anchorage,AK-Cordova-Yakutat-Juneau,AK-Anchorage, the last two sectors needed to be cancelled.
The aircraft is still on the ground in Yakutat about 32 hours after landing.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA66/history/20201115/0202Z/PACV/PAYA
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N615AS performing flight AS-66 from Corduva,AK to Yakutat,AK (USA), landed on Yakutat's runway 11 when the captain felt an impact at the left hand side of the aircraft. The aircraft rolled out without further incident, turned around to backtrack the runway to the apron when the crew saw a dead brown bear on the runway.
A post flight inspection revealed impact damage to the left hand engine's (CFM56) inlet and cowling.
Alaska's Department of Transport airport staff had inspected and cleared the runway about 10 minutes prior to landing of the flight and had not noticed any wildlife in the vicinity. The aircraft hit a female brown bear and killed the mother, her cub estimated about 2 years old remained uninjured.
The airline reported the captain felt an impact at the left hand side during rollout and later saw the dead bear on the runway about 20 feet off the runway center line while taxiing to the terminal.
The aircraft was scheduled to fly Anchorage,AK-Cordova-Yakutat-Juneau,AK-Anchorage, the last two sectors needed to be cancelled.
The aircraft is still on the ground in Yakutat about 32 hours after landing.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA66/history/20201115/0202Z/PACV/PAYA