May 31, 2009 The Indian air force has slanted to a more ornithologically conscious approach to flight planning following a bird strike involving one of its aircraft and reported in the flight levels. A huge four-engine IAF IL-76 transport was flying at more than 22,000 feet when it struck a yet-unidentified... 

June 12, 2009 Standing near one of two runways at Air Station Cape Cod yesterday, Peter Jamieson fired a starter pistol armed with a “screamer” shell, and a startled killdeer called back with a shrill, agitated whistle before flying away. Even something as tiny as a killdeer, an 8-inch... 

May 19, 2009 A Northern Colorado Med-Evac Bell 407 Helicopter en route from Greeley to a hospital south of Denver suffered as bird strike two miles from Swedish Medical Center (landed at Centennial Airport) at 1:10 a.m. Sunday May 17. The 4 people aboard were uninjured. The helicopter made an emergency... 

May 19, 2009 An EMS helicopter transporting a patient to a Denver area hospital was forced to abort the mission and land at an airport instead of its intended destination, Swedish Medical Center. The pilot of the North Colorado Med Evac Bell 407 helicopter said a pigeon came through the top right portion... 

May 19, 2009 63 Bird Strikes Reported in 2008 at Chattanooga Airport It was the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency biologists conducted summertime “roundups” of Canada geese (when they are moulting and can’t fly). There was an aggressive... 

May 29, 2009 For the past two months, Fred and Wilma, a pair of wild turkeys, wandered into yards in Forestdale to gobble leftovers from bird feeders. Kathie Powell saw the pair so often on her lawn at 43 Falmouth-Sandwich Road that she decided to name them after the Flintstones cartoon characters.... 

June 5, 2009 The full extent to which birds collide with airplanes had been unknown to the general public — until last week. After initial reluctance, the Federal Aviation Administration released a comprehensive report on the dangerous bird problem at the nation’s airports, an account that... 

June 25, 2009 About 700 yards (640 meters) from the end of a LaGuardia Airport runway, where thousands of planes take off and land, New York officials want to build what could be the equivalent of a bird magnet: a very large garbage transfer station. Just four months earlier, a run-in with birds sent... 

July 17, 2009 The Ministry of Transport and Communication said stakeholders should join hands in the efforts being made to ensure air transport safety. Opening a consultative meeting organized under the title “Aircraft bird strike and wildlife hazard prevention” yesterday, Transport and Communication... 

July 12, 2009 An Aegean Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration SX-DVX performing flight A3-803 from Munich (Germany) to Athens (Greece), rejected takeoff from Munich Airport’s southern runway due to a bird strike. The airplane slowed safely and taxied back to the apron on own power. A replacement...