January 21, 2009 Almost anything that pumps air, even a vacuum cleaner, has a filter to keep contaminants out. Why not jet engines? s A feather was found on Wednesday in the right engine of the US Airways Airbus A320 that splashed into the Hudson last week. Because chicken wire stretched over... 

An Air Force jet at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage collided with more than 30 Canada geese on Sept. 22, 1995, causing the plane to crash shortly after takeoff and killing all 24 crew members. // < ![CDATA[// 6/9/2009 One in three of the nation’s commercial airports have... 

June 30, 2009 AA Flight 1256, Headed Towards NYC Airport From Miami, Landed Safely After Collision With Birds Nose Hydraulics Damaged, Large Bird Found In Landing Gear On Tuesday at LaGuardia Airport another airliner had a mid-air bird strike. The plane landed safely, but the strike damaged the nose... 

Plane lands safely, no one hurt Jun 30, 2009 The pilot flying this American Airlines jet reported a bird strike as the jet began its descent into LaGuardia Airport today. The strike caused a hydraulic leak, but no one was injured. A bird strike has once again endangered a plane flying... 

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30 June 2009 The bird strike hazard team at 3 Wing Bagotville, Que., now has its own air support squadron “staffed” by two birds of prey: a Saker Falcon and a Harris’s Hawk. The two raptors arrived in Bagotville on April 18 and needed time to get used to their new... 

June 30, 2009 An American Airlines Boeing 737 jetliner landed safely at LaGuardia Airport late Tuesday morning after the crew reported a bird strike on final approach, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman told Newsday. Flight 1256, en route from Miami to LaGuardia, was at 900 feet when it... 

An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration N907AN performing flight AA-1256 from Miami,FL to New York La Guardia,NY (USA) with 135 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to runway 22 at a height of about 900 feet, when the crew reported a bird strike. The crew continued the landing and rolled... 

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An American Airlines Boeing 737 (like the one below) reportedly struck a bird descending through 900-feet on approach to La Guardia today. Speculation is the bird or birds are smaller than the Canadian Geese which downed the US Airways jet into the Hudson River earlier this year, since the geese...