That depends. Is it an arrival or departure flight?
There was a pretty humorous bird incident during the televised Australian Open tennis tornament a couple of years ago.
During a tense doubles match, one of the players hit and killed the bird and another player immediately ran up to the it, dropped to the ground and crossed himself as if he was giving it last rites.
Slightly off-topic, but if you ever have the chance to watch a football game with Skycam on a big-screen HD TV, do it. Looks absolutely amazing.
Duke, bravo.
Ah ha! Here’s the origin of the “Gondola Rule”:
Winfield - it was a gull, not a pigeon. You got the wrong member of the general taxonomic category “flying rat”. Search under “seagull” for accounts of the incident.