Safety Topics

Abstract

A problem that is always with us is that of bird strikes on aircraft and it is no small task to collect information from such incidents, analyse it and give advice to flight crews, operators and other bodies. The size of the problem may be appreciated when it is realised that 3,975 incidents of this type were reported to ICAO in 1981. This total came from 36 states, chiefly from Europe, North America and the Pacific area. Only about one‐fifth of ICAO's members were reporting bird strikes and, taking into account the sparseness of some other parts of the world, it is conservatively estimated that the annual total of such occurrences may be said to be about 10,000.

Citation

Mayday (1984), "Safety Topics", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 56 No. 1, pp. 20-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035940