Aircraft collisions with birds pose obvious risks to the safety of humans and wildlife. In “Migratory Canada geese cause crash of US Airways Flight 1549”, a paper published in the August issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Dr. Peter Marra and his colleagues conducted a forensic investigation of a birdstrike event, related to [...]

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