A 727 AND A HAIL STORM

(How would you’ve liked to have been on this flight ? )

This is an old Boeing 727 after landing from a flight over Alberta, Canada on�Friday 10 Aug 2006.��

On a night flight, around 11PM, Canadian 727 aircraft 705BX was crusing at 35,000 feet when it encountered hail the size of tennis balls.� The pictures below show some of the damage.� All landing lights were destroyed, as was the radar.� The crew was forced to make a nearly “blind” night emergency landing.� Upon safe return to the ground the first officer and flight engineer quit.��It is expected that the aircraft is a total loss as its structural integrity has been compromised. The ol’ Boeing Tri-Motor/Three-Holer made it through though.