Apparently the threshold for too many horses loose on a plane is “one”.
It was ever thus:
plus the next few posts immediately below.
Actually that whole thread is kinda entertaining.
Dick Francis book Flying Finish involves a character working as a groom on a cargo plane delivering horses.
Francis research included flying on those cargo trips. There’s a lot of detail about how horses are safely flown. The grooms setup stalls in the plane and put down hay. I can’t recall how they’re secured. Most likely its with a horse collar.
Glad this horse didn’t get injured.
LSLDad wasn’t there.
Lucky, all things considered.
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Without even looking at the article (yet), @Darren_Garrison continues his reign as Thread Titler Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary.
A guy I knew that worked at MSFT obviously got paid too much. His teen daughter had a couple of horses and would go to competitions around N America. They didn’t drive the horses but used Equi Jet
I can’t disagree.
I hate it when that happens: https://www.cnn.com/travel/horse-escapes-on-boeing-747/index.html
The elephant in the room in addition to the horse on the plane is the fuel dumping. How much does 20 TONS of jet fuel cost?
I figure 6666 gallons but I don’t know how much it costs. Figures are all over the map. But at $5/gal that’s over $33,000. Whinney!
You can let yourself out the back door. There’s juice in the refrigerator.
[golf clap]
According to the CNN article, the horse was so badly injured it had to be euthanized.
The horse, which partially escaped its stall while airborne, had to be euthanized due to the extent of its injuries, according to two people familiar with the episode.
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The horse was among 15 being transported to Liege — an import hub for Europe — when turbulence struck shortly after takeoff, according to John Cuticelli, the head of the corporation responsible for operating animal quarantine and export at John F. Kennedy International Airport.The horse became spooked and jumped halfway over the high front barrier of the stall and became hung up, with his front legs on one side of the barrier and his hind legs trapped on the inside of the stall.
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Cuticelli said, “we dispersed veterinary care, animal handlers, medical equipment, horse slings, a horse ambulance, everything necessary to accommodate that horse.”“We had to take the other horses out to get the equipment in to get the horse out,” he said.
But once the animal was on the ground, it was determined that its injuries were too severe to survive and it was euthanized, Cuticelli said.
Sounds more like the horse had had it with bein’ with these motherfuckin’ humans on this motherfuckin’ plane!
I’m gonna bet the dumped fuel cost was not a lot compared to the cost of the horse. And of the cost of redoing the mission the next day with one fewer horse.
A very sad situation all the way ‘round.
We discussed awhile back - in this thread, or another one? I can’t find it - the pilot having authority to order the horse euthanized midflight if it could be stopped in no other way from endangering the aircraft.
Follow my link in post #2 of this thread. “Euthanized” is not quite accurate. More like slaughtered.
Not to mention the ecological disaster.
At least they didn’t dump it on a school playground.