News

A Pacific Air Forces report says that a F-16 Fighting Falcon with the 18th Fighter Interceptor Squadron that dropped two fuel ...
Each year, bird strikes cost US airlines an estimated $1.2 billion. Only part of those costs are from actual damage. The rest comes from flight delays and cancellations. A bird strike can disable ...
A fighter jet has landed safely after an "in ... A spokesperson for the RAF had earlier said it was due to a suspected bird strike. The aircraft was recovered safely to its Lincolnshire base ...
[Courtesy: US Air Force] A South Korean F-35 was forced into an emergency belly landing earlier this month after a bird strike on its ... incident that prompted the fighter jet’s emergency ...
The plane made the emergency landing "after the crew reported a possible bird strike and fumes in the cabin," the FAA said.
Since 1990, wildlife strikes at the Provo and Salt Lake City airports have caused nearly $22 million in damage. During that same time period, Salt Lake City reported 4,098 wildlife strikes ...
What You Need to Know: In 2017, reports claimed - and were later deemed false - that an Israeli F-35 stealth fighter was ...
The database shows strikes resulted in "substantial damage" to aircraft on about 3,000 occasions. Eleven people died in incidents relating to bird strikes. The FAA initially fought to keep its ...
It is very rare for a bird strike to be linked with fatalities, and in the majority of collisions, aircraft land safely with very little damage. Of over 1,400 strikes recorded in 2022, only 45 ...
A British Airways flight headed from Washington, D.C., to London Saturday diverted to Boston after a report of a bird strike and smoke in the cabin, officials said. British Airways Flight 216 ...