July 24, 2009 A number of Air Malta flights were delayed yesterday, after an aircraft had to be substituted due to a bird strike. The Malta-Reggio-Rome flight, landed safely at the south Italian city’s airport despite suffering a bird strike. The airline sent an aircraft to Reggio in the afternoon,... 

July 24, 2009 So is the amount of research to prevent them. The number of bird -aircraft strikes is growing, but so is the amount of research to prevent them. The world’s only site dedicated to bird – aircraft research is in Sandusky. It was an accident back in January where 2 migrant Canada... 

April 6, 2009 An Allegiant Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration N868GA performing flight G4-745 from Orlando Sanford,FL to Allentown,PA (USA) with 138 people on board, returned to Sanford Airport after the airplane hit a bald eagle during take off. The crew decided to perform a low approach to... 

Apr 24, 2009 A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300, registration N632SW performing flight WN-595 from Norfolk,VA to Orlando,FL (USA) with 136 passengers and 7 crew, struck two large birds during the landing roll out on runway 17L at Orlando.  Read More →

May 30, 2009 A Lufthansa Airbus A340-600, registration D-AIHY performing flight LH-458 from Munich (Germany) to San Francisco,CA (USA), performed a seemingly normal landing on San Francisco’s runway 28L even though the aircraft had to go around on its first approach to runway 28R due to being... 

June 1, 2009 A virtual book of all life on Earth is being created by UK and US scientists. The online reference work will create a detailed world map of flora and fauna and track changes in biodiversity. The database, dubbed a “macroscopic observatory”, will be populated with data about... 

June 2, 2009 Pilots and some elected officials are crying foul over plans to build a garbage transfer station that would be about 700 yards from the end of a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The concerns center over whether the facility would draw birds to the area, possibly increasing... 

July 23, 2009 A flock of birds grounded an Air Malta plane in Reggio yesterday morning, stranding passengers in the small Italian airport for some eight hours and disrupting plans. The plane, with some 130 passengers on board, was meant to continue flying to Rome and scheduled to land at 10.30 a.m.... 

July 23, 2009 Air Malta’s flight KM612 from Malta to Rome via Reggio (Airbus A319 ‘9H-AEM’) was on Thursday morning involved in a bird strike incident upon landing at Reggio airport. Except for this incident the flight was uneventful and the aircraft landed normally, the airline said... 

July 23, 2009 Last June, a Turkish Air Force F-16 (#89-0036) suffered a birdstrike at take-off. The aircraft was able to return safely to its base. Upon take-off, the F-16 entered a flock of four pigeons. Two hit the aircraft near the left main gear landing door. No other damage occurred. The F-16...