‘We heard a thud’: Plane hits coyote during takeoff at Rhode Island airport

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) – Erin Drozda and her wife are supposed to be in Costa Rica, but their travel plans got interrupted by a coyote.

“We heard a thud, and then after the thud, we still took off. We were up in the air for 10 to 15 minutes, and then all of a sudden the captain came on and said, ‘This is the flight crew. If anyone heard that thud, we hit a coyote, and we are now on our way back to Providence,'” Drozda told Nexstar’s WPRI.

“We thought it was a joke at first,” she continued. “You don’t ever hear that.”

Drozda was on JetBlue flight 1129 out of T.F. Green International Airport in Rhode Island when the collision happened Tuesday morning.

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