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Article: Travel Safety Update - North America.
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- Airguide Online
- Article date:
- April 13, 2009
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Apr 12, 2009
Event: Proven Tactics on Bird Strike Risk Mitigation Wildlife strikes are costly to airlines as well as posing a safety hazard to aircraft and flight operations. Nationally, bird strikes have resulted in more than 550,000 hours of aircraft down time and costs civil and military aviation more than $625 million every year from engine and/or aircraft damages and flight delays and cancellations. More importantly, with approximately 50 % of bird strikes damaging the engine(s), aircraft crew members and their passengers[sup.1] lives are put at high risk. Over 219 people have been killed worldwide as a result of wildlife strikes since 1988. The recent bird ...