Canadian Geese Damage Plane

Gothamist knew Canadian geese were vicious, but this is ridiculous: A gaggle of geese flew into an American Airlines flight leaving LaGuardia, forcing it to land at Kennedy minutes later. The geese damaged "both the plane and the engine on its right side" according to American Airlines spokespeople. The plane is a two-engine F-100, which seems small, but still, Canadian geese... that boggles the mind. Though it does remind of that cool part in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when senior Dr. Jones played by Sean Connery uses birds to kill the Nazi pilot after them, but that was only funny because a Nazi died.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on September 5, 2003 8:01 AM

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Alejandro Urquiza P

I LOVE THIS TIPE OF GEESE, I'M FROM MEXICO AND I NEED SOME GEESE PICTURES FOR DESCKTOP, FOR MY COMPUTER COULD SOME ONE TELL ME HOW, I HAD VERY NICE FRIEND IN BRANTFORD ONTARIO CANADA,

British goose

Maybe the geese were Canadian citizens, and not Canada Geese at all

Lil Timmy

They're called "CANADA geese" -- (Not "CANADIAN geese") -- Look it up!!!

hoofin

http://www.wawa.com/wawaprofile/pro-home.asp

that's better

hoofin

http://www.wawa.com/wawaprofile/pro-home.asp

" "Wawa" is a Lenni Lenape Indian word for the Canada Goose that was found in the Delaware Valley, that's why we use the goose on Wawa's corporate logo. "

I think these birds are referred to as Canadian geese in the vernacular so often, that the usage is acceptable. After all, if these geese are based in Canada, then they are the geese of Canada, and therefore Canadian geese.

Eh?

U-nanimous

Jen, honey, if you want to tease us Canadians, you'd better spell 'pejorative' correctly .

It's a "Canada" goose, just like it's a "Baltimore" oriole, not a "Baltimorean" oriole. But a Canada Goose still leaves enough feces in it's wake to make it deservedly disliked.

goosey

i like how the story posits the "accident" as the plane ramming into the geese, but gothamist is all about the geese ATTACKING the plane. hmmm, who really is at fault here???

Jen

But calling them 'Canadian' is so much more...perjorative...

hoofin

The Delaware Indians referred to them as "Wawa".

Now popularized in the Wawa Food Market. www.wawa.com

apl

Not to be a stickler, but they are "Canada geese", and not Canadian geese. Don't ask me why, I forget why frankly, but my editor ripped me a new Canadian butthole when I put it in a story.

hoofin

I think this was their way of saying, that they are getting a LIT-tle tired of being chased off suburban corporate parking lots by dogs.

A little, "hey tough guys--you want the fight? 'Bring it on' . . ."