Dog posed runway hazard, was shot

Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | 11/1/02 | Gina Holt

[Skooz]

By Gina Holt
Enquirer contributor

A schnauzer who escaped from a travel kennel was shot as it ran across the runway at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Tuesday night.

The dog got out of its kennel, ran on the ramp and then out onto the runway about 5:20 p.m., said Ted Bushelman, director of communications for the airport.

"We did everything to try to catch him," he said. "He was running toward the runway. We just can't let it out on the runway. That was our heaviest time for take-offs."

Planes cannot take off when objects are on the runway because the engines tend to suck up everything around the plane.

"The headlines could have read: `Because airport police didn't shoot dog, 120 people died last night,' " Mr. Bushelman said.

"That's a sad situation," Nick Miller, spokesman for Comair said Thursday. "We're still trying to determine how the dog was able to get out of its kennel box."

He said the cause needs to be determined so that it doesn't happen again.

A Tennessee breeding service company flew the dog out of the Tri-City Airport in North East Tennessee.

"The animal had a final destination of Des Moines, Iowa," Mr. Miller said. "The dog was not with a family."

[Skooz]

Then we disagree. No big deal.

[JSpears]

It's unbelievable that people who don't know about FOD,
and then are shown the evidence of its destructiveness,
then keep on claiming that FOD is a bogus issue.....

[Skooz]

I never said it was a bogus issue.

I said that I doubted enough was done to catch the dog before the "Oh, heck, Bubba, let's keel it" mentality took over.

Don't make me post a cartoon........

[Frapster]

Then we disagree. No big deal.

On that I can agree. ;-)

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

I presume, then, that you are willing (and able) to pay the entire costs of shutting down the airport "long enough". Pleased to meet you, Mr. Gates.

I have worked on Air Force bases and flown in small planes. The Air Force policy is to do just that except in time of war of if it impeads a rescue operation. It really doesn't take that long for a vehicle to go out to the runway and chase the animal off. It's probably more dangerous to shoot the animal and have a bullet ricochet into an aircraft.

[-YYZ-]

Re: post# 113. I don't know what the relevance is, but I think that comic was pretty funny. Thanks for the smile.

[JSpears]

Whatever...

They just waste bandwidth

[Skooz]

Oh no, a representative of the Bandwidth Preservation Society of the early 1990s. The Bandwidth Police.

[JSpears]

But I stand corrected...

It was that other guy that posted that FOD was bogus

[CIB-173RDABN]

SD

I would not like to see an animal sucked up into a jet engine, nor do I like to see an animal kill needlessly, on the other hand, if that was the only way to remove the hazard, I have no problem with that either.

I was answering the question, what do you think would happen if it was sucked up into the engine.

[July 4th]

"The dog was not with a family."

Dogs flying on their own?

[FreedomPoster]

>>That "incident" is the highlight of 20th century French Military glory.

ROFLOL!! Good one.

[Bush2000]

As long as humans are safely on the ground it could take a year for all I care. No amount of money is worth that dogs life. Only human life is more valuable.

Oh, great. Another PETA flake. WOOF!

[Pookie Me]

Two issues here - if I'm chasing a dog on the tarmack and it eludes me and starts heading towards the runway - 1) I'm not chasing it on foot out there and 2) I'm shooting it.

ALL IN ALL, A WASTE OF TIME EVEN DISCUSSING THE MATTER

IT WAS A YIPPY DOG! (Or, in some circles of the PC Crowd, A Self-Assured Dog).

It's called the breaks of Naval Air!

Pookie and Me

[sneakypete]

it's the same people that make "Jackass," a masterpiece of cinematography, top all the rest at the box office.

In my opinion that is the most bizarre thing so far this century.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Having been around C-5s alot, I can tell you that it is an unbelieveably powerful sucking machine.

An A-6 is a much smaller aircraft than a C-5. I have an ugly little video clip of an A-6 at night on a carrier deck, and the ingestion of one of the deck crew. Really nasty.

If that dog were ingested on the take-off roll, a lot of people could die.

[al baby]

no plane would be damaged if it DID hit the poor thing.

Uh, dude. Do you realize what happens to aircraft engines if dogs pass through them



Dude Do you relize what happens to a dog when he pass's a jet engine ?

[sneakypete]

So... uh... who shoots all of the squirrels that might jump out onto the runway? What about birds? bats? deer? any other form of wildlife?

I'm not sure if it is airport employees who do this,or FAA employees. What I do know is that it is done. I see stories every once in a while about people complaining about geese and other birds being shot. Non-flying animals can be trapped and moved. This doesn't work with fliers.

Do they have rifle brigades set up to stop these dangerous intruders???

No,they use shotguns,although I'm almost positive there will be a scope-sighted rifle locked away somewhere at most airports.

To be honest,I'm shocked that there wasn't a tranquilizer gun around for emergencies like this.

[sneakypete]

Or do you believe there is some barrier that keeps animals out?

Yes. They call it a "high fence".

[Poohbah]

FOD = Foreign Object Damage. Caused when a jet engine inhales a solid object. Also term used to describe any object on the ground in the vicinity of jet aircraft.