using the aircraft's instruments alone. The aircraft eventually landed safely. In 2010, the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) issued a warning to pilots about the potential dangers of flying through a locust swarm. CASA warned that the insects could cause loss of engine power and loss of visibility, and blocking of an aircraft's pitot tubes, causing inaccurate airspeed readings. Bug strikes can also affect the operation of machinery on the ground, especially motorcycles. The team on the US TV show MythBusters – in a 2010 episode entitled "Bug Special" – concluded that death could occur if a motorist were hit by a flying insect of sufficient mass in a vulnerable part of the body. Anecdotal evidence from motorcyclists supports pain, bruising, soreness, stings, and forced dismount caused by collision with an insect at speed. In popular culture In the March 1942 Boy's Own Paper story Biggles and the Purple Plague, by Capt. W. E. Johns, an immense swarm of locusts threatens food supplies, and the aviators have trouble flying. An episode of the classic Jonny Quest animated TV show features a giant condor ripping the wing off of a Fokker D.VII World War One fighter plane. In the 1965 film Sands of the Kalahari, a twin-engine plane is brought down by a locust swarm that smears the windscreen and clogs the carburetor intakes. In the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery) uses an umbrella to scare a flock of birds into the path of an attacking Luftwaffe fighter plane, causing it to sustain multiple bird strikes and crash, saving his life and the life of his son, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). In the 1997 film The Edge, starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, their floatplane crashes after encountering bird strike, leaving the two stranded in the wilderness with their friend. The 2016 film Sully shows US Airways Flight 1549 captained by Chesley Sullenberger that was forced to ditch on the Hudson River in 2009 after sustaining a bird strike shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport. In the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick Phoenix and Bob are forced to eject after a bird strike causes the engines of their F/A-18F to flame out. See also AEDC Ballistic Range S-3 Carla Dove—ornithologist and researcher specializing in bird strikes Chicken gun Foreign object damage Mid-air collision – an aerial collision between aircraft Roxie Collie Laybourne