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 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... 

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... 

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...