January 2023 – Bird Strike Association of Canada – Comité canadien sur le péril aviaire

Boeing arraigned on criminal fraud charge in crashes that killed 346

26 January 2023 News by Gary Searing

Jan. 26 (UPI) — The U.S. Justice Department announced that Boeing is being arraigned Thursday on a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud charge related to two separate 737 Max jet crashes in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019 that killed 346 people. U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor ordered Boeing’s public arraignment on the felony
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NTSB says bird strike likely caused deadly Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash

24 January 2023 News by Gary Searing

Jan. 24 (UPI) — A bird strike likely contributed to the deadly crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The NTSB released its final report Tuesday on the factors analyzed in the crash that killed 157 people in 2019. Tuesday’s report deviated in multiple parts from conclusions drawn by the Aircraft
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NTSB Publishes Additional Comments on Ethiopia’s Final Report on 737 MAX 8 Accident

24 January 2023 News by Gary Searing

WASHINGTON (Jan. 24, 2023) — The National Transportation Safety Board released additional comments on the Ethiopian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (EAIB) final report of the March 10, 2019, crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane. The new comments, provided to the EAIB’s investigator-in-charge, detail the NTSB’s concerns about several of the
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Indonesia, Australia discuss wildlife hazard management in aviation

19 January 2023 News by Gary Searing

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Directorate General of Civil Aviation at the Transportation Ministry of Indonesia held an aviation safety workshop, with focus on Wildlife Hazard Management, in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) of Australia. “The Wildlife Hazard workshop discusses disturbances in flight operations caused by wild animals, especially from bird strikes around the
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Bird strike warnings resurface amid probe into deadly Nepal plane crash

18 January 2023 News by Gary Searing

KATHMANDU — On the morning of Jan. 16, the day after Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, killing all 72 people on board, authorities at the newly inaugurated airport were alarmed by yet another incident. A plane plying the same Kathmandu-Pokhara route as the ill-fated Flight 691 struck a steppe eagle (Aquila
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France’s BEA unhappy with final Ethiopian Airlines MAX crash report

7 January 2023 News by Gary Searing

The French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA), brought in to assist Ethiopian authorities in 2019, is the latest to add additional comments to the investigation’s final report. The BEA has asked Ethiopian authorities to revise the report on the 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8, claiming that concerns raised in the
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