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An air taxi pilot reported that fll airport workers fired a bird diversion rocket that narrowly missed his aircraft as he took off.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 878852 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201003 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | FLL.Airport |
| State Reference | FL |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Transport Low Wing 2 Recip Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 135 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Climb |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Engineer Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 393 Flight Crew Total 20400 Flight Crew Type 2300 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Other / Unknown Inflight Event / Encounter Object |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 10 Vertical 20 |
Narrative:
Airport maintenance workers and vehicles were positioned near the departure end of runway 27L (5276' length) at fll. During take-off; nearing departure end of runway 27L climbing through approximately fifty feet AGL; a rocket shot up in front of right wing and exploded twenty feet from aircraft. I notified tower. Later investigation revealed that rocket was of the type used to scare birds away from airport property. Maintenance personnel apologized for lapse of good judgment.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An Air Taxi Pilot reported that FLL airport workers fired a bird diversion rocket that narrowly missed his aircraft as he took off.
Narrative: Airport Maintenance workers and vehicles were positioned near the departure end of runway 27L (5276' length) at FLL. During take-off; nearing departure end of runway 27L climbing through approximately fifty feet AGL; a rocket shot up in front of right wing and exploded twenty feet from aircraft. I notified tower. Later investigation revealed that rocket was of the type used to scare birds away from airport property. Maintenance personnel apologized for lapse of good judgment.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.