Voluntarily reported bird strikes at local airports have increased 46%, according to a Newsday analysis of FAA data.

It is not uncommon for planes to strike ... aircraft killed 76 people in the United States, according to a Federal Aviation Administration report published in June. Most of those strikes involved ...

Airline News editor Geoffrey Thomas said bird strikes happen 'far more often, but typically they don't cause the loss of an airplane by themselves'. The doomed aircraft attempted a belly-landing ...

While large birds in particular can pose dangers to aircraft, it would be highly unusual for a bird strike alone to cause a crash, aviation experts said. Dane Williams, director of the consultancy ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is approaching the sound barrier with its 11th test flight in the XB-1 test campaign. The 11th test ...

In the majority of bird strike incidents, pilots are able to land the aircraft safely with little or no damage. Often, a bird strike will go unnoticed until the aircraft is inspected back on the ...

it has brought down comparatively few modern aircraft. Some experts said of the Sunday crash that a bird strike was unlikely to be the sole cause. "A bird strike should be a survivable event ...

"A bird strike on an engine might shut an engine down ... Eyewitnesses to the crash that killed 179 people said they observed flames in the aircraft's engine and heard explosions, reports say.

A United Airlines passenger jet struck a coyote on the runway during takeoff in Chicago, forcing the flight to return to O'Hare International Airport to have the landing gear examined. The Federal ...

Mid-afternoon Friday finds us aboard one of the yellow and black bird scare vehicles, standing slightly off Runway 1735 at Entebbe International Airport (EIA). Dan Muhairwe, a wildlife hazard ...