The 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 .
