NTSB Advances Probe of Flight 1549; FDRs Confirm Bird Strike
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A single feather found on the wing of the Airbus 320 that was Flight 1549 is a grim wakeup call to one of aviation’s deadliest menaces—bird strikes. In 2007 alone, U.S. civil aviation reported 7,600 bird and wildlife strikes, and the U.S. Air Force, 5,000 bird strikes. During 1990-2007, these...
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