Just for information, the Ryanair flight from Beziers, France (BZR) to Bristol, UK (BRS) Sat, 18 September 2010, Flight FR6025 (Depart BZR at 20:25) might have been a victim of bird strike. During takeoff, the starboard engine of this Boeing 737 started vibrating badly and the plane was unable to climb properly. We turned round and glided slowly down to Girona airport in Spain where we were moved... 

Hi We are a group of middle schoolers that have a project on transportation problems. Our problem is bird strikes. We have a question is there any type of solution to prevent birds getting strike with out getting hurt or damaging the airplane itself? Please let us know your opinions From, Lauren D, Crystal V, Katherine C  Read More →

Saturday 03 October 2009 A Ryanair jet was forced to make an emergency landing when a dual-engine bird strike shortly after take-off forced its crew to abandon the flight. The Italian aviation authority has launched an investigation into the “serious incident”, which occurred on Thursday, when Ryanair flight FR8631 was taking off from Trapani Airport on the Italian island of Sicily. The... 

July 29, 2009 A Delta Airlines plane getting ready to take off from JFK this evening struck several birds, forcing the pilot to hit the brakes, flattening two tires in the process. The Boeing 767 did not suffer any other damage and nobody was hurt, aviation officials said. There were 202 passengers and 11 crew members on-board Delta flight 72, which was en route to Istanbul, company officials... 

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July 21, 2009 CORPUS CHRISTI — A malfunction in the design of the throttle and a bird strike caused two training aircraft from Naval Air Station Kingsville to crash in separate incidents in 2005. The causes of those incidents were released to the Caller-Times last week. The T-45A Goshawk that crashed on May 11, 2005, on land owned by the base was the result of an engine shutdown related to the... 

July 29, 2009 American Airlines’ MD-80 An American Airlines jet was forced to make an emergency landing Wednesday shortly after taking off in Missouri after one of its engines was disabled by a collision with a bird. The American Airlines MD-80 jet landed at Lambert Airport in St. Louis shortly after takeoff around 2 p.m. A passenger on board the flight to Los Angeles said that he saw a bird... 

Why the Sudden Rise in Flying Accidents? July 29, 2009 It seems that every few weeks there is news about another collision between birds and planes. So what’s happening in the skies? Are birds organizing and forming terrorist flocks with the purpose of attacking a plane? Certainly “bird strike” is an evocative term. Can Planes and Birds Coexist? So why all the air strikes? The reason... 

July 29, 2009 The fatal connection between a flock of American white Pelicans and a Cessna Citation 500 business jet at 3,100ft over a lake in Oklahoma in March 2008 is the fuel behind some new safety recommendations issued by the US National Transportation Safety Board yesterday. The collision with one or more of birds, which tend to weigh on average about 20lb according to the Smithsonian’s... 

July 29, 2009 An American Airlines MD-83 flight from Saint Louis, Missouri enroute to Los Angeles, California suffered a bird strike to it’s right engine shortly after takeoff this evening and was forced to make an emergency landing back at the St. Louis Airport. Flight 449 was carrying 140 passengers and five crew members when the strike was felt by the flight’s captain. The airplane...