This method simulates the impact of bird strikes to test the resilience of aircraft engines. Despite these efforts, bird strikes continue to pose challenges. In the United States alone ...

California’s only lab that can confirm lethal bird flu in poultry is shifting some testing to facilities out of state due to ...

It took 14 years, but the Hudson River bird strike incident led to a strengthening of Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) testing standards to make sure engines could withstand impacts from ...

Operators of the airport where Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashed in December, killing 179, failed to meet both international and ...

What happens if a bird flies into a plane engine? The event is called a bird strike. Each year, bird strikes cost US airlines an estimated $1.2 billion. Only part of those costs are from actual ...

NTSB went on to note that based on the information available to the pilot, a potential risk for a bird strike would not have been detected. "A review of military and civilian bird hazard websites ...