Snarge
I learned something new after the US Airways flight crash-landed in the Hudson. When birds fly into jet engines, the resulting "bloody goo" that they're transformed into is called "snarge".A Sep 2004 article in Flying Safety magazine provides some further details about snarge.
- The most common method of collecting snarge is "by spraying the impact point on the aircraft with a water bottle and swiping it down with a paper towel."
- Snarge is "Smelly by nature, and often packed with mold spores, gooey bird fat or amorphous bits of flesh."
- Snarge looks like "something you find in your handkerchief after a bad cold."
- However, bird experts regard snarge as "the ultimate identification challenge!"
Category: Animals, Flight, Science