Increasing Vulnerability to Bird Strikes

Credit: JONATHAN BLAIR/CORBIS
Was January’s bird-strike-induced ditching of an Airbus 320 into the Hudson River a one-in-a-million fluke? “This was an accident waiting to happen,” said Richard Dolbeer, a recently retired U.S. Department of Agriculture ornithologist who has been studying bird-aircraft strike hazards (BASH) for...

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