NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
Air Carrier Captain reported a Canadian Goose bird strike after takeoff. The collision caused the First Officer's static system to fail. The Captain ask for and was given priority handling to return to the airport.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
On takeoff, hit a goose at about 20 ft. First Officers pitot static system failed, causing erroneous indications. I then took over flying the aircraft, we [requested priority handling] and returned to Newark airport for an overweight landing.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Aircraft Equipment Problem
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Aircraft · Environment - Non Weather Related
- Primary Problem
- Environment - Non Weather Related
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.