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FAA makes public its airplane-bird strike data
AP ^
| April 24, 2009
| FAA
Posted on 04/24/2009 4:25:04 PM PDT by Fawn
WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration has made good on its promise to release for the first time, records of where and when airplanes have struck birds over the last 19 years.
The disclosures come thanks largely to pressure after the dramatic ditching of a US Airways jet in the Hudson River after bird strikes knocked out both its engines in January.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; birdstrikes; faa
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:25:04 PM PDT
by
Fawn
To: Fawn
EAGLES
9 years:
NY -1 strike
FL - 33 strikes.
Total US- 144 strikes.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:33:57 PM PDT
by
Fawn
(http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=v8320y&s=5)
To: Fawn
In a word 'duck' no, not that one, the other one ....
3
posted on
04/24/2009 4:45:23 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Fawn
What was the reason for withholding the info in the first place? Fear of commercial airline passenger lose?
4
posted on
04/24/2009 4:47:19 PM PDT
by
Radio Free American?
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Fawn
I see there have been SNIPES hit too.....
5
posted on
04/24/2009 4:52:10 PM PDT
by
SteamShovel
(Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
To: Radio Free American?
Probably. Airlines shrink, air travel shrinks, FAA staff not needed to regulate large number of airlines, must layoff federal employees.
To: Fawn
Has anyone here actually looked at the database of
bird strikes. Look at the number of
OPOSSUM . I didn't even know that they had wings.
66 strikes in 15 states.
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posted on
04/24/2009 5:32:50 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Fawn
The disclosures come thanks largely to pressure after the dramatic ditching of a US Airways jet in the Hudson River after bird strikes knocked out both its engines in January.Let's not gloss over the fact that 15 of the 19 geese involved in that incident were Canadian Geese...
8
posted on
04/24/2009 6:07:33 PM PDT
by
FDNYRHEROES
(In just 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
To: LibreOuMort
There was one “large bird - unknown” strike in WA in the month we headed to Norway. Bet that was our flight.
9
posted on
04/25/2009 12:33:16 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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