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... 

May 27, 2009 A Kingfisher Airlines Airbus A320-200, flight IT-3148 from Indore to Mumbai (India), ingested a bird into an engine while on initial climb. The airplane returned to Indore for a safe landing. A post flight inspection revealed damage to several compressor blades. A replacement aircraft... 

May 11, 2009 Arch’s plane approaches the bird Red Bull claims it gives you wings – but it appears its pilots guard them jealously after one competitor mowed down a bird in a race. Austrian pilot Hannes Arch was competing in the Red Bull Air Race when he swung past a race pylon. // <... 

Ivanoff wins after Arch hits bird following takeoff May 11, 2009 Nicolas Ivanoff banks into a turn in the skies above downtown San Diego yesterday en route to winning the third edition of the Red Bull Air Race. No one around the Red Bull Air Race scene ever questioned Nicolas Ivanoff’s potential. “On... 

May 11, 2009 Nicolas Ivanoff of France won the second Red Bull Air Race World Championship of the season in San Diego on Sunday with a superb run in the finals while championship leader Hannes Arch of Austria fell to third after suffering a bird strike that tore a grapefruit-sized hole on the back... 

June 10, 2009 Companies Disagree On Technology There’s an old saying in aviation that “a bird in the prop will cause the airplane to stop.”  Bird strikes have always been a cause for concern in the aviation industry, and one of the topics scheduled to be reviewed at this week’s...