"A bird strike on an engine might shut an engine down, but there's so many redundant systems there, it just doesn't make sense. We're not in the dark, but we know the runway is 9,200 feet.

Aviation experts say a bird strike should not have crippled the landing gear of the doomed plane that crashed in South Korea and killed 179 people. The twin-engine Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 ...

NEW YORK — A bird strike involving an American Airlines jetliner disabled one of the plane’s two engines shortly after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, forcing the flight to turn ...

(Ahn Young-joon / AP) A possible bird strike and an unusual landing-gear failure are the main points of focus as investigators prepare to analyze the flight recorders for clues on South Korea’s ...

While the exact cause of the tragic plane crash in South Korea that resulted in the deaths of 179 people remains unclear, there are emerging questions about whether a bird strike — an ...

Experts are questioning the initial theory that a bird strike caused the deadly crash of Jeju Air flight 7C2216 in South Korea, which killed 179 people. The Boeing 737-800 was originally thought ...

The official cause of the crash remains unclear, but the new evidence gives further credence to earlier theories that the crash was caused, in part, by a bird strike — an increasingly common ...