Pilots have tended to provide most of the information collected on bird strikes, which are a serious problem that can affect air travel safety and involve repairs to aircraft. A study in Hawaii has found that there were 526 bird strikes, with 25% of these reported by pilots. Pilots were more likely... 

Secretary of State Etienne Schouppe said in a press conference on Monday (Dec 22nd) introducing the final report of the accident investigation, that the crew of N704CK rejected takeoff although decision speed V1 had been reached 4 seconds prior to a bird strike into engine #3 and 6 seconds prior to... 

Italian investigators are starting inquiries into a landing accident at Rome Ciampino Airport today involving a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 which was apparently struck by birds during approach. The aircraft, operating as flight FR4102, was transporting 166 passengers and six crew members on a service to... 

RAF LAKENHEATH, England — The dominance of U.S. airpower is being challenged in the British countryside by the most asymmetrical of adversaries. Sternus vulgaris: the starling. Well, not just one starling. Thousands of them, legions of noisy little birds that come to the wetlands outside RAF Lakenheath... 

A Royal Australian Air Force relief operation to help Papua New Guinea islanders displaced by last week’s high seas has hit a snag after a bird strike grounded the plane. The RAAFC-130 was approaching top speed on the Kaybayan Runway in New Ireland Province when low flying birds struck the left... 

Bird strikes have left a Royal Australian Air Force plane stranded in Papua New Guinea. The plane was delivering aid supplies to the flood-stricken New Ireland province. An RAAF pilot was forced to abort the first take-off attempt from Kavieng airport when a bird struck the left-hand propeller, causing... 

Officials Say Plane Suffered ‘Multiple Bird Strikes’ An encounter with a large flock of birds while on approach to Rome Ciampino Airport resulted in a rough emergency landing for a Ryanair jet Monday morning. The Associated Press reports the Boeing 737-800 took off in Frankfurt as Flight... 

A Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N135DL performing flight DL91 from Orlando,FL to Atlanta,GA (USA) with 271 people on board, struck a bird while climbing to 5000 feet out of Orlando and ingested the bird into the left hand engine. The engine was shut down, the crew declared emergency and... 

A Continental Airlines Boeing 767-400, registration N68061 performing flight CO60 (dep. Nov 30th) from Newark,NJ (USA) to Brussels (Belgium), suffered a bird strike while on approach to Brussels. The landing around 8am local time was safe. Continental Airlines reported, that the affected engine needs... 

The crew of an Iberia Airbus A320-200, flight IB434 from Madrid Barajas,SP to Bilbao,SP (Spain) with 30 passengers, declared emergency and returned to Barajas Airport after a bird struck the right engine shortly after takeoff. The engine failed and had to be shut down. The landing about 30 minutes...