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   From: BtB@BB.not.aaaaaaa   
      
   "Viperdoc"  wrote in   
   news:EuIcl.11597$as4.4214@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com:   
      
   > I flew into somewhere in SD in a Mesaba Saab 340. The flight before   
   > had a bird strike on the windshield (goose), that broke off the   
   > windshield wiper. The wiper blade then hit the prop, which flung the   
   > broken blade through the side of the fuselage, impaling itself in the   
   > thigh of one of the pax. He had to go to the operating room for some   
   > sort of surgery, but I do not think it broke his femur. Talk about bad   
   > luck.   
   >   
   > They flew in a new prop the next day, and there was some speed tape on   
   > the side of the fuselage.   
   >   
      
   yipes. An airplane I uswed to fly had a wiper come loose and go right   
   through the engine, trashing it, but that is bad luck.   
      
   BTW, thehole in the fuse had to have had more than speed tape over it   
   unless thye were ferrying it unpressurised!   
      
   > I've always wondered if the pax got to ride free on NWA for the rest   
   > of his life.   
      
   Hehe   
   He'd have been lucky to get a taxi ride to the hospital for free!   
      
   They'd prolly refuse to give him anything to avoid being seen as shoudergin   
   any blame whatsoever, I'd a thought.   
      
      
   Bertie   
      
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