Tortoises On Airstrip
(N.ZP.A.~Reuter) NAIROBI. Strange hazard* for Kenya Police Air Wing pilots using the airstrip at Moyale on the Kenya-Ethiopian border, are tortoises. And whenever the Air Wing lands there, the aircraft has to circle the field until the creatures are shooed away. “Sometime* the strip is stiff with great big lumbering tortoises,” one pilot said. One aircraft actually hit one with its undercarriage while taking off—but it caused no apparent damage to either.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 30007, 17 December 1962, Page 17
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