November 2014 – Bird Strike Association of Canada – Comité canadien sur le péril aviaire

Bird strike destroys plane propeller but pilot continues to fly for an hour to destination on one engine

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

By Carol Driver for MailOnline Passengers were left terrified after a plane lost one of its propellers in a bird strike but continued with the rest of the hour-long flight on just one engine. The Flybe service had just taken off from Guernsey for Birmingham when startled travellers heard a loud bang on the left
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Tech, Ops Changes Eyed To Cut Bird Strikes

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

North American bird-strike risk is rising, and consensus is growing that mitigating it depends on a mix of new procedures to make take-offs safer plus new technologies to beef up aircraft and make bird flocks easier to see and avoid. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=comm&id=news/BIRD050709.xml

FAA opens up its bird strike database to the public

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

More than 82,000 birds and mammals collided with civilian aircraft between 1990 and 2007, causing more than $332 million in damage, according the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) National Wildlife Strike Database, made public for the first time today. And those are just the known incidents—the FAA estimates that only 20 percent of such collisions
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Yellowknife council mulls bird cull at city dump

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

City councillors in Yellowknife say they may have no choice but to cull ravens and seagulls feeding at and flying over the city landfill. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/05/12/yknife-bird-cull.html

Bird strikes increasing at Canadian airports

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

The number of reports of collisions or near collisions between airplanes and birds has risen at half of Canada's major airports in recent years, according to CBC News analysis of Transport Canada data. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/13/bird-strikes-airports.html

Bird strike caused fatal crash of illegally chartered Cessna 500 in Oklahoma in 2008

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

In March of 2008, a chartered Cessna 500 (registration N113SH) crashed two minutes after taking off from Oklahoma City's Wiley Post Airport (PWA), killing the two pilots and three passengers on board. The U.S. National Transportation Board (NTSB) has issued a report on the accident, citing "airplane wing-structure damage sustained during impact with one or
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Bird-strike concerns: Oregon airport seeks to fill ponds

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Eugene Airport officials say they want to fill ponds near the main runway to reduce the risk of birds striking airplanes. The ponds near the airport attract numerous kinds of birds and have been a worry for years. Now, the airport is seeking permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Bird strike reporting on the rise in the US

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

By: Megan Kuhn Source: Flightglobal.com Wildlife strike reporting is on the rise in 2009 compared to 2008 in the US, driven by several factors including greater public awareness following the forced Hudson River landing in January of US Airways flight 1549 due to a strike involving Canada geese. There is increased awareness about strikes after 1549
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Old Tech Finds New Use Fighting Big Problem

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Most of the time, the Bird Strike North America Conference is just another obscure meeting only known to those within the field. But when your field draws headlines after birds send an Airbus A320 into the Hudson River, suddenly your conference gets a whole lot of attention. Such is the case at the 2009 meeting
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NTSB Recommends Several Revisions On Bird Strike, Operations Regs

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Reforms Suggested For Airports, Flight Plans, Maintenance. The NTSB Tuesday issued a list of recommendations for changes in FAR's that it says will enhance bird strike prevention, and beef up safety for charter operators. For preventing and reporting bird strikes, NTSB said that the FAA should revise the bird-strike certification requirements for 14 Code of
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Month: November 2014