The pics are gnarly. Pretty much knocked the bears brain out of the back of its head. ASA is probably the only airline to hit a bear with a transport category jet, and definitely the only one to ever hit a fish!
The story says the sow was killed but the two year old cub escaped uninjured. I wonder if either one of them noticed the Boeing 737-700 that was bearing down on them ...
I heard a comedian years ago that called his wife after the plane he was on hit a deer. She then asked, "In the air?"
After I hit the deer, my brother reminded me it was getting awful close to Christmas, and that I needed to pay extra-close attention on night flights this time of year...