Originally published at: FAA Data Shows Wildlife Strikes on the Rise - AVweb
Latest report underscores growing risks to aviation safety.
I see pilots flying just offshore down the beach at a couple hundred feet. The stats show birdstrikes increase dramatically below 1,000 ft. You won’t find me doing that.
There was a new device that I saw at EAA Airventure that used a scanning camera to detect birds, drones, and other aircraft.
The math doesn’t seem to compute: “360 aircraft destroyed [by wildlife strikes] between 1990 and 2024” averages to between 10-11 aircraft/year., or 126 destroyed in the US in the same time frame, averaging nearly 4/year, but the author states with some apparent alarm that “2 were destroyed in 2024 alone.” So, “the latest report underscores the growing risk to aviation safety”??
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