Try this one. http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2015/08/ryan-st3kr-n48701-accident-occurred.html

It's a sad one.

Montague Island Alaska ,we Found a boat in the middle of the runway one spring when we returned to set up camp.

As a kid on army bases we used to see some odd things at odd angles on the runways. I never saw one fall but we always assumed they were either sling loads or rolled out of a Chinook.

Certainly not the most interesting but I thought it was a bit cliché when a cow moose and her little one crossed the runway at McCarthy causing us to go around. It was our first trip to AK last summer and first landing into McCarthy.

We often have bear munching on runway dandelions that cause a go-a-round and of course moose can ruin your whole day as well. Bear are generally skittish enough that you can risk a landing, but you never know until the last few moments.

there was a manhole in the nanwalek airport (there is a cone on it in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUy0pyRXTlo), I have come around the corner at the same airport and had a full on baseball game going on, they broke it down by the time I was on short final and had it going again by time I was unloading. At Seldovia there was a herd (gaggle, pod?) of wild turkeys. And there is almost always a black bear on the Bear Cove strip, who'd thunk?

Fuel truck parked on the runway......at night

Flying overseas we would often fly late at night or into the early morning hours. The locals manning the control tower at the small strip we were working out of would get tired of waiting on us and just go home (turning every light on the airport off on their way out). When checking back on with military ATC we would be informed that the airstrip was closed. Well, seeing that we were flying night vision goggles (NVGs) and diverting to the nearby civilian airport was a PITA we would just land blacked out, no big deal. Next morning the aircraft would be tied down on the ramp...all good. Well, one night I was informed that the strip was closed due to an obstruction. I did not believe it so I overflew the runway to confirm and sure enough, there was the fuel bowser parked in the middle of our 3,000' runway. We diverted but only because I figured it would be too hard to explain to the boss in the morning.

Good times...

The Mexican federal police operates a predator drone base out of the airport I base at in Celaya. For reasons I've never understood, they park on the runway for 15-20 minutes after touchdown. They were right in the middle one time and I finally got tired of waiting and just started making standard pattern calls. There was plenty of room for my Maule in the first half of the runway, but some american sounding guy went running from the base hangar, taxied to the end and radioed that I was fine to land if I wanted.

A paving crew...

We flew out of the desert after a few days camping, only to find X's and a paving crew on the runway...something the airport didn't bother to tell anyone about ahead of time. We watched a helicopter depart the helipad, then landed in the grass alongside the runway, opposite end of the pavers.

The airport manager came storming up when we parked, practically spitting hornets, screaming that the airport was closed. I replied that the airport was not closed, the runway was closed, and we didn't use the runway. He didn't like that answer, but it gave him pause enough that he went and looked it up. Turns out we were right, though I'm glad I didn't have to argue it to the FSDO.

Saw this old gal heading out for a egg laying mission yesterday. She made pretty good time getting across the runway



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Several summers ago the caretaker at Lower Loon pulled out onto the runway in his UTV as I was approaching the Middle Fork on final. Sporty go around. I had made a few laps overhead to check out the strip as well as to announce myself. I guess he had his music turned up. We came back and landed and he apologized profusely. The funny thing is that he thought I was Pete from Chalice and that he was about to get his teeth knocked out.

I had an incident like Hammer spraying out of La Plata Durango. I was using the grass and Continental Express didn't like me on their airport with them. Captain was really miffed, I thought, because he hadn't seen me doing 360s on base waiting for him to land. Those red and white Pawnees over green fields are hard to see.

Yes, I agree with Dogpilot that camels are a challenge. Pictured is Bardere, Somalia.

And thank you sir, for rescuing my colleagues from the shattered Herk in Wau!

Some of you may remember the SUV that I flew over when they decided to cross the runway at La Garita (Fly-in 2017). Wasn't really an issue since my touch down zone was beyond them, but interesting nonetheless. Got it on video, too.

Chased a rattlesnake off the runway in the Texas panhandle a couple months ago. I am told that's how you know when you're in Texas.

I had no idea a house cat could jump 20', and 8' high, but that's what it seemed a neighbor's car did right across my runway once some years ago just as I was lifting off. I still think of that every time I take off.

Does a naked woman sunbathing on top of her Subaru wagon count as interesting?

I thought it was...

She was less excited to see me. Maybe if I was my younger self...

You didn't happen to get her plate number did you?

Prior to last winter I would have said Camels on the runway in Dubai. But I had to do several low passes at the frozen lake runway in Ely Minnesota to clear off the guy who was perched in his camp chair ice fishing smack dab in the middle of our nicely packed runway marked with frozen in pine boughs ; )

I just came across this NOTAM from my Papua New Guinea days. The last one, asterisked.

Brown bear/Boeing 737 collision at Yakutat: https://samchui.com/2020/11/16/alaska-a ... 7KcfhBHaf0

That’s gonna be spendy.

We Had a Wien Air 737 injest a bald Eagle into an engine while landing at Kodiak. They were beyond the “no go around” point on the approach, and landed uneventfully.

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