Some Significant Wildlife Strikes to Civil Aircraft in the United States, January 1990 \u2013 September 2010

7082522012010PDFTech ReportWildlifeBird strikesCivil aircraftStatisticsTables (Data)Air transportation crashesAviation safetyCrash dataUnited StatesWildlife Services (U.S.)Wright, Sandra E.United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection ServiceNTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Aviation Energy and EnvironmentNTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTNTL-AVIATION-Aviation Safety/AirworthinessNTL-AVIATION-Aviation Energy and EnvironmentNTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-StatisticsNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Aviation Safety/AirworthinessNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITYUS Transportation CollectionThe U.S. Department of Agriculture, through an interagency agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration, compiles a database of all reported wildlife strikes to U.S. civil aircraft and to foreign carriers experiencing strikes in the USA. We have compiled 99,411 strike reports from 1,585 USA airports and 237 foreign airports for January 1990 through December 2009 (9,474 strikes in 2009), but estimate that this represents only about 39% of the strikes that have occurred. The following examples from the database are presented to show the serious impacts that strikes by birds or other wildlife can have on aircraft. These examples, from throughout the USA, demonstrate the widespread and diverse nature of the problem. The examples are not intended to highlight or criticize individual airports because strikes have occurred on almost every airport in the USA. Many of the strike examples reported here occurred off airport property during approach or departure. For more information on wildlife strikes or to report a strike, visit www.birdstrike.org. or http://wildlife.faa.gov.90