Feb 1, 2009 Modern piloting is built on routines. Hundreds of millions of man-hours have been poured into analyzing every possible eventuality, stripping it of risk and mapping out what to do on the rare occasion when something does go wrong. On the afternoon of January 15, Chesley B. Sullenberger... 

July 3, 2009 THE combination of a bird strike and pilot error resulted in a fighter jet crash landing at a North East airport. An RAF Tornado made a crisis diversion to Newcastle Airport on August 5 last year but overshot the runway by around 30 metres, forcing its complete closure. The £30m military... 

Capt. Sullenberger Says Experience Key To Safe Landing; Transcript Of US Airways Flight’s Cockpit Recording Released Play CBS Video Video A Look At Airline SafetyTranscripts reveal what Capt. Chesley Sullenberger said during the emergency landing in the Hudson River in January. Unfortunately... 

There’s no official word yet on what caused an Airbus 320 to crash into the Hudson River Thursday, but the Federal Aviation Administration says the pilots reported a bird strike shortly before going down. Strong as big jets are, small birds can do lots of damage to jet engines. Bird strikes have... 

Robert Stolarik for The New York Times The partly submerged Airbus A320 floated along a pier in Battery Park City on Thursday night. More Photos > // < ![CDATA[ writePost(); // ]]> Published: January 15, 2009 A US Airways jetliner with 155 people aboard lost power in both engines,... 

Federal investigators are pursuing early indications that the US Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River was struck by geese shortly after taking off — a type of collision that has caused problems for pilots since soon after the first airplane flight. Multimedia Photographs Plane Crashes... 

Birds getting sucked into an engine is a routine hazard for pilots. But the multiple bird strikes suspected of disabling both engines of the US Airways plane Thursday may be a first for a modern jetliners. According to a Federal Aviation Administration official, the pilot reported flying through a... 

A bird strike caused the 2007 crash of a University of North Dakota airplane that killed two people, the National Transportation Safety Board says. Student Adam Ostapenko, 20, of Duluth, Minn., and instructor Annette Klosterman, 22, of Seattle, died when the twin-engine Piper Seminole crashed in a... 

Secretary of State Etienne Schouppe said in a press conference on Monday (Dec 22nd) introducing the final report of the accident investigation, that the crew of N704CK rejected takeoff although decision speed V1 had been reached 4 seconds prior to a bird strike into engine #3 and 6 seconds prior to... 

On April 29, 2007, a Thomsonfly Boeing 757 from Manchester Airport, UK to Lanzarote Airport, Spain suffered a bird strike when at least one bird, supposedly a corvid (crow), was ingested by the starboard engine. The plane landed safely back at Manchester Airport a while later. The incident was captured...