Why Don't Birds Cause MORE Crashes?
Why Don't Birds Cause MORE Crashes? with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science
Way back at the dawn of aviation, during a public flight exhibition of all things, a gull jammed a plane’s controls, crashing the plane and killing the pilot. Today, there are thousands of commercial airliners – and billions of birds – in the sky at any given time, so it seems like they should run into each other all the time. So why don’t birds cause more plane crashes?
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- Aviation: The design, manufacture, and operation of aircraft — and, more broadly, the practice of mechanical flight itself, from a single-seat glider to a transcontinental airliner.
- Shrapnel: Fragments scattered by the explosion of a shell, bomb, or mine; loosely, any of the broken pieces thrown off by a violent blast.
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Johnson, K. (2022, September 27). FAA researching UV LED lights for prevention of increasing bird strikes. FLYING Magazine.
Vaishnav, T. (2024, October 31). Collisions between planes and birds follow seasonal patterns and overlap with breeding and migration – new research. The Conversation.
