July 23, 2009 An Air Malta flight to Rome via Reggio landed safely this morning after suffering a bird strike at Reggio. Except for this incident the flight was uneventful, the airline said. This afternoon Air Malta sent a relief aircraft to Reggio to transport the Rome bound passengers whilst also... 

January 16, 2009 Authorities believe birds were sucked into the engines of a U.S. Airways A320 that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River after losing power, an incident that underscores the danger small birds pose to low-flying aircraft and the difficulty aircraft engine manufacturers and... 

January 16, 2009 The number of collisions between birds and aircraft has rapidly increased over the last two decades, despite better technology to combat them. The US Airways plane that improbably wound up floating in the Hudson River has drawn attention to bird strikes, but a U.S. Department of... 

May 18, 2009 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will made its entire bird strike database available recently. Portions of the database have been publicly available since the information was first collected in 1990, but the public will now be able to access all of the database’s fields. Harassing... 

May 18, 2009 A Med Evac helicopter heading from Greeley to Swedish Hospital had to make an emergency landing early Sunday morning after a bird smashed into the front windshield. Northern Colorado Med Evac says the helicopter was about 2 miles away from Swedish when the bird hit the windshield just... 

April 25, 2009 Most bird strikes on airplanes don’t to the damage that Sully Sullenberg faced when he had to ditch his plane, loaded with passengers, into the Hudson River. Many are so minor, they are never reported, but it happens a lot more frequently than the FAA wanted you to know. Now they have... 

May 18, 2009 GREELEY — A medical helicopter carrying a patient from Greeley to a hospital south of Denver made an emergency landing after a bird strike left a small hole in the front windshield. 9News reported the helicopter was about 2 miles from Swedish Medical Center when the bird collided with... 

May 18, 2009 Whether birds that put flights in danger should be shot out of the sky to keep planes safe is at the heart of legislation now pending in Sacramento. While most major airports in California already have federal authority to shoot down birds that endanger an aircraft, state Fish and Game... 

March 25, 2009 An Aegean Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration SX-DVO performing flight A3-907 from Larnaca (Cyprus) to Athens (Greece), struck multiple birds while climbing out of Larnaca. 4 birds were ingested into the right hand engine, which needed to be shut down. The crew returned to Larnaca,... 

April 2, 2009 A TAP Air Portugal Airbus A340-300, registration CS-TOD performing flight TP-252 from Luanda (Angola) to Lisbon (Portugal) with 248 passengers, returned to Luanda after a bird was ingested by one of the engines during climb out from Luanda. The airplane landed safely a few minutes after...