Bird Strikes

Bird Strike Sends Delta Flight Back To Phoenix Airport

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home


PHOENIX — Authorities say a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Utah has safely returned to Phoenix after one or more birds hit the aircraft. Fede...

Shock And Caw: Pesky Starlings Sill Overwhelm

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green


SALT LAKE CITY — The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare – or, better yet, a few of his...

Bird Hits LaGuardia-Bound Airliner, Plane Lands Safely

NBC New York | Jennifer Millman | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York


A bird strike has once again endangered a plane flying near LaGuardia Airport -- an incident that recalls the near-miss celebrated as "The Miracle on ...

Airport Geese Protests In NY

NY Times | Rachel Cernansky | Posted 07.18.2009 | New York


Just a few blocks north of Union Square, a crowd gathered outside the Port Authority's headquarters on Tuesday afternoon to protest New York City's pl...

Bird Strike Records Proposed Confidential By FAA

AP | MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN | Posted 04.27.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to keep secret from travelers its vast records on where and how often commercial p...

Bird Strike: What May Have Brought Down The US Air Flight? (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.15.2009 | Home


MSNBC is reporting that US Air Flight 1549, which has crashed into New York's Hudson River en route from LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, NC, may have ...