A bird strike also caused the famous "Miracle on the Hudson" incident in 2009, when an Airbus plane ditched onto New York's ...

Tragedy struck the skies on Christmas Day, as 38 people on board an Azerbaijan Airlines flight died after the plane crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan. Preliminary investigations show that a ...

The report examined a 34-year period of bird and other wildlife strikes on planes from 1990 to 2023. Researchers like Pruchnicki are working to better understand this phenomenon and its risks to ...

While a fresh generation of diverse and trendy restaurants have helped shake the local food scene’s longtime ... As a result, most bird strikes occur during takeoffs and landings. Even off-airport ...

Potentially fatal mid-air bird strikes and rare 'black swan' events ... Miraculously, pilots Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger and co-captain Jeff Skiles, managed to safely land in the river ...

A 2009 bird strike during a flight from LaGuardia to Charlotte captures public attention to this day. On Jan. 15, 2009, US Airways airline pilot Capt. C.B. “Sully” Sullenberger and his crew ...

Moments before the flight was due to land, air traffic control issued a bird strike warning - an alert ... The events were dramatised in the 2016 film Sully, which starred Tom Hanks as the ...

Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was hailed as a hero after he landed the powerless plane in the Hudson River and all 155 people on board were rescued. A bird strike involving an American ...