It could as easily been a mid air collision with a hawk's
landing gear. Two years is a long time for a wild bird,
most live a single season and breed once.


"Grumman-581" wrote
in message
...
| On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:45:23 GMT, Larry Dighera

| wrote:
| "Howard R. Trojanowski, a Pierre-bound, 2-year-old
field sparrow
| who had been licensed to fly since two weeks after
he was hatched
| and had logged over 60,000 flying hours, departed
from a ledge
| near Sioux Falls Regional Airport at 11:04 a.m. CST.
Trojanowski
| never reached his intended tree branch, instead
striking a
| tempered-glass picture window 2.5 miles northwest of
Mitchell 74
| minutes after takeoff at an estimated speed of 39
mph."
|
| Pleeezze. This attempt at humor is appropriate for Mr.
Rogers or Cpt.
| Kangaroo.
|
| If they're going to do satire, at least they could get the
hours
| right... It's physically impossible to do 60,000 hours in
2 years
| since there are only 17,520 hours in 2 years... Minus the
first 2
| weeks and thus the maxium is 17,184 hours... Damn news
media can't get
| anything right with respect to aviation... grin