Coyotes at Chicago's O'Hare cause delays

Clip:
CHICAGO - Two planes preparing to land at O'Hare International Airport
aborted their landings after another pilot spotted coyotes near the
runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.

The flights, operated by United and American airlines, did "go-
arounds" and landed safely on their second attempts on Sunday, said
FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro.

The pilots were about a quarter-mile from O'Hare with their landing
gear down when they were warned, Molinaro said. The pilot of a flight
landing ahead of them saw the coyotes and alerted controllers.

Full story:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/fligh...te-delay_x.htm


Notice the side bar stats - 11 friggen house cats? Don't think they
could cause much damage. Moose on the other hand.

On Mar 8, 7:03 am, "Duh_OZ" wrote:
CHICAGO - Two planes preparing to land at O'Hare International Airport
aborted their landings after another pilot spotted coyotes near the
runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.

yet another reason to avoid o'hare

"Bucky" wrote ...
On Mar 8, 7:03 am, "Duh_OZ" wrote:
CHICAGO - Two planes preparing to land at O'Hare International Airport
aborted their landings after another pilot spotted coyotes near the
runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.

yet another reason to avoid o'hare

While there are no hares at O'Hare, there are likely any number of
rabbits/cottontail and maybe even jackrabbits (or some of the dreaded
"jackalopes"), sure to bring coyote (singular & plural) who among God's
people loving critters flock to suburbia to harvest vermin, rodents, dogs
and cats (serving as veritable animal control departments when it comes to
small pets on the lose or even in the yard). O'Hairy, with the trees on
site for shelter and enough areas warmed in winter by man's engineering
works to make coyote comfortable, is prime hunting ground (and likely
supports fox, too). Actually, the conservationists could probably plant a
wolf or two.

I'm confident that descendants of the Navajo's "Trickster" and Hanna
Barbera's "Wiley Coyote" can avoid the occasional Boeing or Airbus landing,
and slink low enough to the ground not to be ingested as FOD by some
whirring turbine on takeoff.

TMO

Foxes are routinely tolerated at small/medium size airports because they perform
one very useful duty: Keep birds from nesting on airport grounds.

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:03:55 -0600, "TMOliver"
wrote:

I'm confident that descendants of the Navajo's "Trickster" and Hanna
Barbera's "Wiley Coyote"

Wiley Coyote is a creation of Warner Bros; Until they formed
their own studio, Hanna and Barbera worked for MGM.


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TMOliver wrote:

"Bucky" wrote ...

On Mar 8, 7:03 am, "Duh_OZ" wrote:

CHICAGO - Two planes preparing to land at O'Hare International Airport
aborted their landings after another pilot spotted coyotes near the
runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.

yet another reason to avoid o'hare


While there are no hares at O'Hare,

Isn't that what O'Henri called his pet hare?

Some people think rabbits/bunnies and hares are the same thing.
However, you would never find a hare named "Anna Nicole"

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:03:55 -0600, "TMOliver"
wrote:


"Bucky" wrote ...
On Mar 8, 7:03 am, "Duh_OZ" wrote:
CHICAGO - Two planes preparing to land at O'Hare International Airport
aborted their landings after another pilot spotted coyotes near the
runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.

yet another reason to avoid o'hare

While there are no hares at O'Hare, there are likely any number of
rabbits/cottontail and maybe even jackrabbits (or some of the dreaded
"jackalopes"), sure to bring coyote (singular & plural) who among God's
people loving critters flock to suburbia to harvest vermin, rodents, dogs
and cats (serving as veritable animal control departments when it comes to
small pets on the lose or even in the yard). O'Hairy, with the trees on
site for shelter and enough areas warmed in winter by man's engineering
works to make coyote comfortable, is prime hunting ground (and likely
supports fox, too). Actually, the conservationists could probably plant a
wolf or two.

I'm confident that descendants of the Navajo's "Trickster" and Hanna
Barbera's "Wiley Coyote" can avoid the occasional Boeing or Airbus landing,
and slink low enough to the ground not to be ingested as FOD by some
whirring turbine on takeoff.

TMO


LGB (Long Beach, CA airport) always has jackrabbits hopping around the
grassy margins of the runway..the area of Long Beach was so heavily
rabbitized in the early part of the 2-th century that thefirst local
high school's mascot was and is a Jackrabbit.

Sometimes the bunnies hop along side the plane when it taxis..sort of
reminds me of when Playboy had its own DC-9? airplane the Big Bunny.
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