Posted Apr 19th, 2008 (1:31 PM) by SpunOne
An Australian F-111 was was nearly destroyed in flight after an untimely meeting with a pelican. In spite of the massive damage, the pilots were able to land the plane without much incident.











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lroe 8 ur momma
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (1:41 PM)
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DAMNED PELICANS!!!!1 
Godfather makes offers and gets refused
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (1:47 PM)
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yah i agree lol!!!!1! 
SanSue has a fantastic frostfire rotation
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (1:49 PM)
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F-111s are made of paper mache corn husks? 
so it goes and you're the only one who knows
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (1:58 PM)
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A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,

He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm darned if I know how the helican! 
ipotter
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (2:16 PM)
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Jeez, I hope the pelican was ok. 
dngrfld
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (2:39 PM)
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SanSue said:

F-111s are made of paper mache corn husks?

Strongest substance known to mankind. 
chipperchip01
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (2:44 PM)
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SanSue said:

F-111s are made of paper mache corn husks?

dngrfld said:

Strongest substance known to mankind.


Not any more. Pelican is now the strongest material known to mankind. 
CaptainCon
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (2:48 PM)
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pelic-owned! 
liquidfrisbee - reads porn to the blind
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (3:33 PM)
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F111-owned 
Mudmonkey wishes evolution would hurry up and be kind to him
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (4:05 PM)
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ipotter said:

Jeez, I hope the pelican was ok.


The pelican was atomized. 
Sijacker wants FIVE cheeses on his pizza
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (4:08 PM)
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paper mache corn husk-owned 
Jenovaoriginal
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (4:17 PM)
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I bet a lot of that damage occurred after the bird hit and before landing. Once those aerodynamics get messed up, theres a lot of stress being put on the body of the plane. 
bigninjapimp
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (4:26 PM)
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Reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. "Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky" 
V eXe  dFUs ion vexedfusion one
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (5:01 PM)
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I'm putting my money on that it wasn't a pelican, but a small UFO and the government is covering up with this lame-ass story about a bird hitting it and in reality they've got these midget aliens somewhere in a facility not unlike Area-51 only it'd be Area 2051 by now considering we'd want to keep up the new millennium and all. 
argon777 claims prima nocta
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (5:23 PM)
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fod 
Sonic Infidel - the Thelyphthoric
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (5:46 PM)
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CaptainCon said:

pelic-owned!


+10 Schrute bucks. 
timicus
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (5:49 PM)
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bigninjapimp said:

Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky


I was thinking the same thing. 
andbruno
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (5:50 PM)
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FYI, it's Papier-mâché.

Even if you want to drop the accents, it's still papier, not paper.

"The more you know" *RAINBOW* 
Sijacker wants FIVE cheeses on his pizza
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (6:03 PM)
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Go back to France. I say PAPER MASHY, YAY! 
dngrfld
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (6:23 PM)
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andbruno said:

FYI, it's Papier-mâché.

Even if you want to drop the accents, it's still papier, not paper.

"The more you know" *RAINBOW*

BECAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! 
Mindfury feels much remorse for tagfailing
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (6:53 PM)
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Insane thing is, they had to fly it in that state over built-up areas for a fair while before landing. Now that plane could have pwned the shit out of a lot of people 
Masuyo has a hot cylon girlfriend imprinted in his brain
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (7:18 PM)
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That's what they get for not chewing their food. Snakes take note. 
DorgoDorato is the man now dog
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (7:38 PM)
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I like the red streak they painted on the paper mah-shay... wait, that isn't paint, is it? 
tehar tee st crosses tehar tee ave
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (7:52 PM)
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NORAD knew the pelicans were in the air,
why were they told to stand down? 
MaximumForce
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (8:02 PM)
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so it goes said:

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,

He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm darned if I know how the helican!


Thanks that was great! 
liquidfrisbee - reads porn to the blind
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (9:02 PM)
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Yeah, I've always loved that one. 
jdbausch makes holes in teeth
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (9:51 PM)
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everyone knows a pelican could never damage an airplane, no matter how fast it was going.

it is simply common sense.

WHY WON"T THEY TELL US THE REAL STORY:
911Pelicantruth.org 
Jim - it's the little things in my pants that we're all living for
 
Apr 19th, 2008 (11:51 PM)
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DorgoDorato said:

I like the red streak they painted on the paper mah-shay... wait, that isn't paint, is it?


It's a racing stripe... makes it go faster.
~Jim 
joshanorton - Emperor of These United States, Protector of Mexico
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (12:19 AM)
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Didn't it just break the nose cone? The rest of the plane looks fine. I'm sure it was a bitch to fly, but it's hardly almost destroyed.

Good thing it didn't hit the cockpit... 
blenderedlove
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (12:46 AM)
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It didn't just break the nose cone... The bird hit the fibreglass nose cone, a section of wing and was sucked through an engine. The strike happened in northern New South Wales and the pilots were able to fly it back and land safely at an airforce base in south-east Queensland with one engine at full power and the other running at reduced power.

Amazing the life span of the aircraft considering what has happened to them. One has had a fuel tank blow while in mid flight, another lost a landing gear on takeoff. 
mejmo06
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (1:48 AM)
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"Gentlemen, introducing the new air support unit 'D77-TC'
I like to call it the Pelican."

"Why the Pelican sir?"

"Because D77-TC is too hard to say in conversation son. Plus it holds things in its mouth...and what kind of animal holds things in its mouth?"

"A walrus."

"Dammit Griff, I thought I told you to quit making up animals..."

Ok, I'm done now. 
Yaco Stumpy
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (1:50 AM)
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OK, I got a question . . .

How the FUCK did they know it was a pelican? Was there like a beak embedded in there somewhere or something? 
Salacious Salad quit (connection reset by peer)
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (3:11 AM)
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so it goes said:

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,

He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm darned if I know how the helican!


Was it from nantucket? 
blenderedlove
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (5:13 AM)
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Remains in the engine intake? Nice to see how how much taxpayer funding is used on pelican culling 
screwbacca has a friction addiction
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (8:29 AM)
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DANGER
PELICRA 
Cleffer thinks you're unique, just like everybody else
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (9:33 AM)
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MaximumForce said:

Thanks that was great! on Fark yesterday!
 
liquidfrisbee - reads porn to the blind
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (10:25 AM)
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It was on Fazed yesterday as well.
What a coincidence, eh? 
IX fingers once gave someone the finger
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (11:27 AM)
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Suddenly, I am proud to have the pelican as the state bird. 
DeportFrostbaks abhors this Wesley-heavy episode
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (11:35 AM)
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Must have been one of those South Phillipean Grenade Pelicans. 
Sumac
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (11:50 AM)
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Paper mache corn husks
Prepared from rice 
Syntax Error - violence is the best way to handle most any hurdle in life!
 
Apr 20th, 2008 (11:28 PM)
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Who the fuck still flies the F-111? 
blenderedlove
 
Apr 21st, 2008 (5:59 AM)
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Australia... Besides, there's nothing wrong with them. Most of the systems in them have been updated. 
Blue Wolf 63 - Courage Wolf 0
 
Apr 21st, 2008 (11:14 AM)
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sumac said:

Paper mache corn husks
Prepared from rice


i see what you did there. 
brewthunda
 
Apr 21st, 2008 (11:20 AM)
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They need to start making nose cones out of pelican. 
ea  sym idge  t is waiting for Ice T to reform Body Count
 
Apr 21st, 2008 (12:26 PM)
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pelican pemmican. tasty. 
blenderedlove
 
Apr 21st, 2008 (9:20 PM)
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Paint the nose cone in pelican blood as a warning to the rest of them 
tuyop
 
Apr 21st, 2008 (9:41 PM)
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I wish I could just... put all the people who sign their posts on probation. I just wish. 
tuyop
 
Apr 21st, 2008 (9:41 PM)
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Syntax Error said:

Who the fuck still flies the F-111?


It's definitely like six behind the F117. God guys.