FSF Reports Increased Wildlife Strikes to U.S. Civil Aircraft

A total of 16,949 wildlife strikes to U.S. civil aircraft occurred from 1991 through 1997, for a 53-percent increase in the number of annual strikes, according to a recent report compiled by the FAA and released by the Flight Safety Foundation. Forty-nine percent of bird strikes took place on...

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