I read today that Milan airport had to close due to a hare infestation. Apparently the little buggers are swarming over the runways and getting stuck under the wheels of landing planes. Now I’m no aviation expert but that sounds like a bad thing. To a plane it must be the equivalent of stepping out of the bath onto a bar of soap.
All of this must be very confusing to the young male employees at the airport. For years the advice they’d been given had to be reversed.
No longer is, “if there are hares on the runway it’s safe to get your undercarriage out” true.