A plane landed safely at Queens’s LaGuardia Airport today after reporting a bird strike on its approach.
The Federal Aviation Administration says American Airlines flight 1256 hit birds at an altitude of 900 feet while nearing LaGuardia around 11 a.m.
The plane, inbound from Miami, managed to land safely despite reporting trouble with its nose gear.
There were no injuries to any of the 140 aboard including five crew members.
The incident came months after another bird strike forced U.S. Airways flight 1549 to splash land in the Hudson River.
The city has since taken steps to try and mitigate the bird population around area airports.
(Source: NY1)
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What about injuries to the birds????
This is no joke! Something has to be done to get of these birds near JFK and LaGuardia BEFORE a catastrophe! We have to stop worrying about the wackos that care more about birds’ lives than human lives!
#1
you joke
but i think there will come a day when they will ban all air traffic to and from airports that are near bird habitats
I think someone commenting here is an injured bird.
#2, I’ve read that many of these birds have been “put to sleep”, and that they are actually migrating now, but they are not usually a problem. The solution, then seems to be to get them to avoid the area when migrating, not outright killing these live creatures for no good reason: a reason that is, seemingly, inapplicable (they’re migrating and only here temporarily).
I don’t know if what I’ve read about this is, in fact, true, but before anyone gets bent out of shape one way or another and wishes for these birds’ death, please read up on the issue, first.
For #2: “but i think there will come a day when they will ban all air traffic to and from airports that are near bird habitats”
Just the opposite, they will try to move bird habitats from near airports. However, because airports generally need wide open spaces around them, the airports themselves sometimes become inadvertent habitats.
To #5– They have a bird habitat right next to JFK!!! What genius came up with that idea!!! This is a year round problem. There are various chemical and electronic methods to make these areas undesireable to birds, but what ever they decide to do, they better do something before there is a major tragedy!!!
KILL ALL BIRDS!!
Like they did with bears in NJ when they became a problem, maybe they should have an limited hunting season on these geese. Let the hunters do their thing and give the results to the poor (goyim of course). This way everybody (or at least air travel, hunters, and goyish aniyim) gets benefit!