JetBlue flight bound for JFK strikes coyote on Rhode Island runway during takeoff: ‘Thought it was a joke’

A JetBlue flight to New York was thrown into chaos after it reportedly smashed into a coyote while taking off from a Rhode Island airport Tuesday morning. A loud thud rattled the cabin of Flight 1129 after its landing gear struck the four-legged predator while roaring down the runway at T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick around 6 a.m., according to JetBlue and a shaken passenger. “We heard a thud and then after the thud, we still took off,” passenger Erin Drozda told WPRI. “We were up in the air for 10-15 minutes, and then all of a sudden the...