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Nigeria: 100 Passengers Escape Air Disaster

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Source: Vanguard What would have been a disaster at the Margret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, Cross River State, was averted by the expertise of the pilot after a bird strike caused one of the engines of a Boeing 737 / 800 series to malfunction. The plane (name withheld) belongs to a Nigerian airline. It had
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Bird strikes up a third at New York City’s major airports

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Source: Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Uptick in strikes has happened while the total number of flights has fallen off by a few thousand since 2009 at Kennedy and Newark airports Collisions between birds and airplanes have risen 31 percent at the New York City area's major airports in the past two years, according to federal government
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Dana: Dual engine failure, bird strike may have caused crash

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Source: BusinessDay The pilot of the Dana Air plane that crashed in on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board, called the control tower to report dual engine failure shortly before going down. Aviation minister, Stella Oduah, made the disclosure on Wednesday while speaking with journalist at the presidential villa. "It was shortly after the
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At Least 20 Canadian Military Aircraft Lost to Birdstrikes from 1944 to 2004, Says Researcher

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Source: Ottawa Citizen by David Pugliese and based on an interview with BSAC member W. John Richardson At least 20 Canadian military aircraft were lost to birdstrikes from 1944 to 2004. The 1944 RCAF accident involved a 4-engined Halifax bomber written off in Yorkshire, England, as a result of a birdstrike. The 2004 accident involved a
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RSPB attacks Ribble seagull cull amid BAE bird strike fears

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Source: BBC NEWS Lancashire The government has given the go-ahead to cull thousands of seabirds in the Ribble Estuary because of safety fears at a nearby airfield. But The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says the decision is a "dangerous precedent". The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ruled after
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Air Force: Bird strike may have caused Arizona crash of F-16 fighter jet

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

Source: Associated Press, Glendale, Ariz. The pilots flying an F-16 fighter jet that went down near Luke Air Force Base in suburban Phoenix reported hitting a bird shortly after takeoff, the Air Force general who commands their base said Thursday. The two pilots, who were practicing landings and takeoffs at the base Wednesday evening, ejected
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Bird strike leads to Waikato plane crash

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

source: NZCity The occupants of a light plane had a lucky escape when it ran off the end of the runway at Waharoa, near Matamata. A light plane has crashed at a Waikato airfield after a bird got in the way as it was trying to take off. The plane ran off the end of
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T-38 Crashes, Pilots Eject Over Wichita Falls Pilots OK after ejecting over Wichita Falls

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

By Frank Heinz – NBC A T-38C crashed south of Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, July 19, 2013, after a bird strike. Both the pilot and trainer pilot ejected and suffered only minor injuries. Two pilots suffered minor injuries after ejecting from their jet, a T-38 Talon trainer, moments before it crashed in Wichita
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Air Force: Pilot error to blame in F-16 crash at Luke AFB in Glendale

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

By Paul Giblin – The Republic | azcentral.com The Air Force blamed pilot error for a crash that destroyed a $22.7 million F-16 fighter jet near Luke Air Force Base in Glendale on June 26. An instructor pilot and a student pilot safely ejected from the single-engine plane before it flew unmanned on a roughly
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Collisions between birds and airplanes are going to get worse

23 November 2014 News by Gary Searing

From Canada geese to snowy owls, avian strikes at airports aren’t going anywhere By Katie Drummond – The Verge It's the flight risk that TSA agents can't screen for: a single bird getting sucked into an airplane's jet engine can wreak damage serious enough to require an emergency landing or, much more rarely, even cause the
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