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Category: News Author : JR Posted: April 24, 2009
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FAA Bird Strike Database Made Public


FAA Bird Strike DatabaseThe Federal Aviation Administration is making its records of bird strikes on planes public for the first time today. The FAA bird strike database went live Friday morning and is now available for public browsing.

FAA Bird Strike Database

The FAA bird strike database contains data on bird-plane collisions from the past 19 years. The US Airways Hudson River incident in January, in which bird strikes took out the plane’s engines and led to a water landing, led advocates to pressure the FAA to make the information public.

The bird strike database contains more than 89,000 instances since 1990. According to its data, 30 accidents have caused substantial damage to planes at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport since the year 2000.

Access the FAA bird strike database here.











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2 Archived Responses to “ FAA Bird Strike Database Made Public ”

  1. Austin
    Apr 24, 2009

    Is anyone else getting a code download when they click the pointy red icon that says “Click for online strike reporting”?

    Instead of executing the php file it downloads it, exposing all the code. I don't really know what the code means but I know it is opening a table from a text file using fopen and all my servers always make me disable fopen.


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