August 2018 – Bird Strike Association of Canada – Comité canadien sur le péril aviaire

Wildlife Hazards at US AIrports

28 August 2018 News by Gary Searing

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials have updated the protocol for reviewing wildlife hazards at US airports, including a ranking of wildlife by the level of threat that they pose to flights. The rankings published in a recent Advisory Circular (AC) intend to guide airport wildlife management personnel and inspectors in prioritizing the wildlife that should
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Fighter jet crashes after bird strike in Sweden

21 August 2018 News by Gary Searing

A Swedish Gripen jet fighter crashed after colliding with a bird in southern Sweden on Tuesday, August 21, authorities said, adding the pilot ejected safely. “It was a bird collision and the pilot had to eject,” Johan Lundgren, spokesman at the Swedish Armed Forces told AFP. The pilot was on a training mission in the
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Talon crash in Oklahoma

17 August 2018 News by Gary Searing

Date: 17-AUG-2018 Time: 13:41 LT Type: Northrop T-38 Talon Owner/operator: US Air Force (USAF)/71st Flying Training Wing Registration: 68-8206 C/n / msn: Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: near Mutual, OK – United States of America Phase: En route Nature: Military Departure airport: Vance AFB
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Bird strike damage liability

15 August 2018 News by Gary Searing

Introduction On 7 March 2018 the Supreme Court for Administrative Law heard a case where no choice needed to be made – an airplane engine and a bird had collided and met their respective fates. Bird strikes are not uncommon in civil aviation: every year there are approximately 5,000 to 6,000 incidents costing $1.2 billion
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Painting birds to monitor birdstrike risk in New Zealand

12 August 2018 News by Gary Searing

Wellington’s birds of a feather could be seen flocking together coloured either blue or green. Wellington Airport is weighing up whether to spray birds different colours to help monitor the risk of birdstrike and note bird migration. New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association senior technical officer David Reynolds said marking birds to track them was not
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Use of drones to move birds away from airports

7 August 2018 News by Gary Searing

Bird strikes on aircraft may be rare, but not so rare that airports shouldn’t take precautions against them. But keeping birds away is a difficult proposition: How do you control the behavior of flocks of dozens or hundreds of birds? Perhaps with a drone that autonomously picks the best path to do so, like this
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