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BIRD STRIKE
COMMITTEE Understanding
and reducing bird and other wildlife hazards to aircraft |
Updated 29 August 2008
Over
400 attendees at 2008 meeting, Orlando, FL, 18-21 Aug. Bruce
MacKinnon Memorial Scholarship Fund 2008 Draft
Strategic Plan, comments solicited PDF files of
Technical Program, 2006 meeting Abstracts from meetings,
1999-2007 Best Management Practices
for airports FAA-USDA report “Wildlife Strikes to Civil Aircraft in
USA, 1990-2007” |
WHY IS THERE
A BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE Bird and other wildlife strikes
to aircraft annually cause well over $600 million in damage to Bird Strike Committee WHEN AND WHERE DOES BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE The organization meets annually
in conjunction with Bird Strike Committee ·
The 2005
meeting was in ·
The 2006 meeting was 21-24 August in ·
The 2007
meeting was 10-13 September in ·
The 2008 meeting was 18-21 August in ·
The 2009
meeting will be 14-17 September in WHAT HAPPENS AT A BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE There typically are four parts to a Bird Strike
Committee WHAT SUBJECT AREAS ARE COVERED DURING THE PAPERS AND REPORTS PORTION OF THE MEETING? · wildlife strike reporting/statistics in relation to safety management
systems ARE THERE ANY BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE Attendees of the annual meetings receive abstracts of the technical papers presented and a list of all attendees and addresses. Click here to locate abstracts from past meetings. PDF files of many of the presentations at the 2006 meeting are available by clicking here. Technical presentations from the 2008 meeting will be published in the science journal, Human-Wildlife Conflicts (first issue of 2009 Volume). WHO ATTENDS BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE Participation in the annual meetings is open to any person interested in reducing wildlife hazards to aviation and in wildlife and environmental management at airports. As examples, people from the following organizations have attended recent meetings: · Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association DID YOU KNOW THAT? · Over 219 people have been killed world-wide as a result of bird strikes since 1988. ·
Bird and other wildlife strikes cost · Over 5,000 bird strikes were reported by the U.S. Air Force in 2007. ·
Over 7,600 bird and other wildlife strikes
were reported for ·
Studies indicate only about 20% of bird
strikes to civil aircraft at Part 139-certificated (passenger service)
airports in · From 1990-2004, USA airlines reported 31 incidents in which pilots had to dump fuel to lighten load during a precautionary or emergency landing after striking birds on takeoff or climb. An average of 11,600 gallons of jet fuel was released in each of these dumps. ·
Waterfowl (31%),
gulls (26%), and raptors (18%) represented 75% of the reported bird strikes
causing damage to ·
Over 760 civil aircraft collisions with deer
and 250 collisions with coyotes were reported in the ·
In 1890, about 60 European starlings were
released in ·
The North American non-migratory Canada goose
population increased 3.6 fold from 1 million birds in 1990 to over 3.5
million in 2007. Over 1,400 · A 12-lb Canada goose struck by a150-mph aircraft at lift-off generates the force of a 1,000-lb weight dropped from a height of 10 feet. · The North American population of greater snow geese increased from about 50,000 birds in 1966 to over 1,000,000 birds in 2007. ·
The nesting population of bald eagles in the
contiguous ·
The · The North American white and brown pelican populations grew at average annual rates of 2.3% and 1.9%, respectively, 1966-2007. ·
At least 15,000 gulls were counted nesting on
roofs in ·
About 90% of all bird strikes in the Meeting Information
For further information contact: John Ostrom, Chair,
BSC-USA |