Official collision airplane and fish

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Even een andere ernstige zaak ;)

Groet / Cees

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/06/us_airways200906
Objective observers of the hazards do not fault geese alone. The experts
at assigning blame are two employees of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Dr. Richard Dolbeer and Sandra Wright, who work out of an
office in Sandusky, Ohio, where they preside over the Federal Aviation
Administration’s National Wildlife Strike Database. Their records from
1990 through 2007 indicate that aircraft in the United States (and some
U.S. airliners abroad) collided with 369 conclusively identified species
of birds. The birds included loons, grebes, pelicans, cormorants, herons,
storks, egrets, swans, ducks, vultures, hawks, eagles, cranes, sandpipers,
seagulls, pigeons, cuckoos, owls, turkeys, blackbirds, crows, chickadees,
woodpeckers, hummingbirds, mockingbirds, parrots, and a single parakeet.
Over the same period, airplanes officially collided with bats on 253
occasions. Furthermore, they had 760 official collisions with deer, 252
with coyotes, 182 with rabbits, 120 with rodents including porcupines, 74
with turtles, 59 with opossums, 16 with armadillos, 14 with alligators, 7
with iguanas, 4 with moose, 2 with caribou, and one each with a wild pig
and a donkey. There was also an official collision with a fish, though the
fish was in the grasp of an osprey at the time.

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