Plane dented at 26,000 feet in mystery incident

[sky otter]

not sure  exactly where this should go..no specific woo-woo section for it..


TODAY   |  June 11, 2013



Plane dented at 26,000 feet in mystery incident
An image of an Air China plane that was forced to make an emergency landing shows a large dent in the aircraft's nose, reportedly sustained high in the sky. With no evidence of a bird strike, experts are trying to figure out the cause.


video here
http://www.today.com/video/today/52165807#52131312

[1Worldwatcher]

These incidences are very alarming, considering these occur during in flight scenario's, but they are not entirely unheard of. This has happened a few times in FAA history, everything from Lightning/Ball Lightning too our feathered friends being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There are quite a few reported incidences, and all one has too do is search Nose cone damage to passenger plains too see that, though unnerving for passenger in flight scenario's will possibly be attributed to either structural failure or some kind of natural occurring phenomena.

Interesting story thought Sky, thanks for sharing.

1WW

[deuem]

Hi Sky,

26,000 feet is a little high for birds and they said in the article there were no feathers or blood found.
This is going crazy here with stories of it hitting UFOs. People are having a field day. Sometimes these nose cones just colapse. A material failure. Slap a new on on and go again.

One trip over the Pacific at over 30,000 feet in a 747, we hit something with the right wing. It moved the entire craft up on that side at least 3 feet and a noise like we hit a baseball. Nice loud crack/boom. I was on the window seat right over that wing so I heard it very well. I was watching a movie with head phones on and the noise was still heard over the movie. The entire plane rotated, so I was not dreaming this.

Deuem then asked the captain to look it over. They came back with glasses and looked over the entire wing. Saw no damage and said we must have hit a pocket of hard air.  Yea, he said "Hard Air" They all knew we hit something up there but it left no visible damage. When we landed the maintenance crews were all over the wing before we even de-boarded. after that I don't know what happened..

[robomont]

you know i like your idea deuem.ive been trying to visiulize what could do that and your idea is the only one that makes sense.
there was what looked like black paint in spots.is that just carbon fiber or primer from where paint chipped off?