July 21, 2009 CORPUS CHRISTI — A malfunction in the design of the throttle and a bird strike caused two training aircraft from Naval Air Station Kingsville to crash in separate incidents in 2005. The causes of those incidents were released to the Caller-Times last week. The T-45A Goshawk that crashed... 

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... 

April 26, 2009 Geese soar through the sky as a jet takes off from North Carolina’s Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in January. INCIDENTS OF BIRD STRIKES AT BUSIEST AIRPORTS Reports by airports of collisions between aircraft and wildlife such as birds... 

The just released FAA database lists 32 occurences of bird strikes into both engines within the last 18 years, not yet including the accident of US Airways US-1549, that successfully ditched in the Hudson River at New York. In average that database alone lists nearly two dual engine bird strikes per... 

April 24, 2009 FAA The FAA released information on the location of bird strikes for the first time Friday, after public pressure mounted following the dramatic splashdown of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River Jan. 15. A bird strike knocked out both the aircraft’s engines. The Associated Press... 

As the latest hearing on Flight 1549 gets under way, we go inside the nation’s top lab for investigating collisions between airplanes and feathered creatures. June 9, 2009 Every day, tucked five floors above the eight-ton African elephant that greets visitors at Washington’s Smithsonian... 

June 9, 2009 An Air Force jet at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage collided with more than 30 Canada geese on Sept. 22, 1995, causing the plane to crash shortly after takeoff and killing all 24 crew members. One in three of the nation’s commercial airports have failed to... 

January 26, 2009 Assuming the US Airways Airbus A320 ditched in New York’s Hudson river two weeks ago proves to have been brought down by Canada geese, the incident will still be only the most serious of numerous birdstrikes in the past year. But regardless of the astoundingly fortunate outcome,... 

July 8, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY – Five people died when an airplane collided with a flock of pelicans, and the family of two of them says the Oklahoma City Airport Trust, the state Department of Airports and Oklahoma City are responsible, because they failed to comply with federal aviation regulations. ... 

A Westjet Airlines Boeing 737-700, flight WS-551 from Hamilton,ON to Calgary,AB (Canada), rolled out on runway 16 of Calgary’s International Airport, when the crew reported a dead bird on the runway. A subsequent runway inspection recovered a dead perch, not a bird. NAV Canada’s Aerodrome...