July 29, 2009 An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in St. Louis after a bird was pulled into an engine. No injuries were reported among the 140 passengers and five crew members aboard the MD-80 jetliner bound from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to Los Angeles on Wednesday. An... 

July 29, 2009 An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in St. Louis after a bird was pulled into an engine. No injuries were reported among the 140 passengers and five crew members aboard the MD-80 jetliner bound from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to Los Angeles on Wednesday. An... 

July 27, 2009 Zapping humans has been put on hold, for the time being. The military is looking to use its microwave pain ray to blast unwanted birds, instead. The Defense Department spent nearly a decade researching and developing the Active Denial System. It’s a microwave beam that penetrates... 

July 28, 2009 Pilots have to watch out for the Canada geese over Queens. In Oklahoma, it’s the white pelicans. The federal National Transportation Safety Board today said that the white pelicans hanging around the Wiley Post airport in Oklahoma City brought down a twin-prop Cessna 500 charter flight... 

July 28, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal safety leaders now officially blame a flock of large birds for a plane crash that claimed five lives in March 2008. Investigators say the bird strike disabled one of the planes engines and caused it to crash shortly after take off from Wiley Post Airport. As... 

July 28, 2009 The US National Transportation Safety Board has warned of a greater risk to aircraft from bird strikes. The board has voted to recommend to the Federal Aviation Administration a revision in standards that require all aircraft to be able to withstand a collision with large birds of up... 

July 29, 2009 Bird strike was what caused US Airways Flight 1549 to have to ditch into the Hudson River in January. The risk of commercial airplanes crashing because they have struck large birds is increasing and design standards should be strengthened so that aircraft can withstand the collisions,... 

July 28, 2009 FILE – In this Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, passengers in an inflatable raft move away from an Airbus 320 US Airways aircraft that has gone down in the Hudson River in New York. WASHINGTON (AP) — The risk of commercial airplanes crashing because they’ve struck large birds is... 

July 29, 2009 Witnesses Say Plane Struck Bird, Disabling One Engine An American Airlines MD-80 jet bound for Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing at Lambert Airport shortly after takeoff just after 2:00pm Wednesday. A passenger on board AA Flight 449 says the plane was still climbing... 

July 29, 2009 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...