July 22, 2009 An Olympic Airlines Boeing 737-400 en route from Alexandroupolis Alexandroupolis’ Democritus Airport to Athens suffered a birdstrike with 60 passengers on board. The OA took off, and shortly afterward flew through a flock of birds, several of which were ingested. The plane made an emergency... 

July 21, 2009 Public Meeting Will Be Webcast The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public board meeting Tuesday, July 28, at 0930 in its Board Room and Conference Center in Washington, D.C. There is one item on the agenda. The Board will consider a final report on the following accident: On... 

July 21, 2009 A bird strike and a mechanical failure grounded two attempts to fly to Ibiza Monday. A Transavia Boeing 737 bound for Ibiza returned to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport twice Monday. The flight first ran into problems 20 minutes after takeoff when it hit a falcon, reports the ANP press... 

July 22, 2009 An Olympic Airlines Boeing 737-400, registration SX-BKX performing flight OA-941 from Alexandroupolis to Athens (Greece) with about 60 passengers, ingested a bird into an engine shortly after takeoff and returned to the Alexandroupolis’ Demokritos Airport for a safe landing. The... 

July 21, 2009 A Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300, flight DL-61 from Atlanta,GA (USA) to Rio de Janeiro,RJ (Brazil) with 216 people on board, struck a bird while landing at Rio de Janeiro’s Carlos Jobim International Airport. The airplane rolled out safely. The runway was briefly closed for an inspection,... 

How a pelican’s brief encounter with a plane led to a sticky end May 11, 2009 Free as a bird: The pelican was enjoying a leisurely flight past a pylon in the Red Bull Race. Sadly, Austrian pilot Hannes Arch wanted the same airspace was closing in fast... Sticky end: The poor pelican was butchered... 

May 12, 2009 A report in NZ’s Manawatu Standard says that the balloons were billowing, the band was bellowing, and the bubbly ready to be poured then a bird spoiled the bash, with streamers and balloons in Pacific Blue colours adorning the room at Palmerston North Airport, which was filled with the... 

May 11, 2009 From 1990 to 2008, aircraft at LAX struck more than 900 birds and other animals, according to data released last month by the FAA.  Our colleague Robert J. Lopez reported: Only 36 of the incidents, or 3.8%, resulted in substantial damage, records show. There were no fatalities. At least... 

May 12, 2009 A Wind Jet Airbus A320-200, registration EI-DOE performing flight IV-465 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Forli (Italy) with 90 passengers, struck a flock of birds on departure from Amsterdam ingesting a bird into one of the engines. The airplane returned safely. The engine suffered damage... 

May 30, 2009 An Aeroflot Boeing 767-300, registration VP-BAV performing flight SU-321 from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Los Angeles,CA (USA), struck a flock of birds during departure from Moscow. The crew continued the flight to Los Angeles, where the airplane landed safely. The FAA reported, that...