Andrew Gideon wrote:



**** happens.


I forgot that reason: animal incursion (and activities {8^) on the runway.

Yep, a few weeks ago aHorizon Dash 8 told me "Tower, we just hit
something on the runway." We send the truck out onto the runway and
they needed a shovel to pick up the remains of some animal. It wasn't
until the Horizon pilot checked his nosewheel and found a few hundred
quills stuck in the tire did we realize it was a porcupine.