Passengers and crew loaded off plane safely, spokesperson says A Swoop airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Abbotsford International Airport after hitting several geese shortly after takeoff Tuesday morning. Flight 312 left for Edmonton at 8:18 a.m. PT and landed back at the airport 10 minutes later after hitting the birds, according to […]
Egrets roost at Elmendorf Lake Park, but the military has said they pose a flight risk to aircraft. The USDA has a nonlethal, humane mitigation plan to deter the birds from the park. Egrets roost at Elmendorf Lake Park, but the military has said they pose a flight risk to aircraft. The USDA has a […]
Russian authorities are proposing to assess airports’ vulnerability to bird activity, in the wake of the Ural Airlines Airbus A321 landing accident outside Moscow. The aircraft came down in a field shortly after departing Moscow Zhukovsky on 15 August. Federal air transport regulator Rosaviatsia adds it is proposing to co-operate with law enforcement to “verify […]
Wellington birds are showing their true colours after the airport has had them painted in a project to monitor birdstrike. Hundreds of gulls sprayed with, orange, green and blue paint have helped Wellington Airport to address birdstrike. Black-backed gulls are known for becoming lodged in planes, and late last year the airport sprayed them with […]
A Russian airline pilot averted disaster Thursday, safely landing an Airbus A321 jet with over 230 passengers and crew on board in a cornfield near Moscow after it struck a flock of seagulls and lost power in both engines. The Crimea-bound Ural Airlines plane was forced to touch down without landing gear deployed after seagulls […]
We normally wouldn’t post something like this except it is just so dramatic! AN INDIAN Air Force pilot escaped death after flying into a flock of birds on takeoff during a training exercise. The pilot was forced to drop his fuel pods resulting in a fiery explosion at the Ambala airbase. The birds had flown […]
And since birds are causing bombs to fall from the sky, we thought we would post yeat another one… MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AP/WCTV) – The Air Force says it’s investigating after a fighter jet from Moody AFB struck a bird and dropped three dummy bombs used for training over North Florida. Moody AFB […]
A Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier crashed in North Carolina, and the pilot is being treated at a local hospital after safely ejecting from the plane, according to the Marine Corps. The service announced that a Harrier based out of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point crashed near Havelock, the town just behind the air station. […]
The crashes of two Boeing Co. 737 Max jets in five months have focused attention on a little-known device that malfunctioned, starting a chain reaction that sent the planes into deadly dives. Pilots have for decades relied on the weather-vane-like “angle of attack” sensors to warn them when they near a dangerous aerodynamic stall. But […]
