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The Costs Of Birdstrikes To Commercial Aviation, John R. Allan, Alex P. Orosz

2001 Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada, Third Joint Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB

Collisions between birds (and other wildlife) and aircraft are known to cause substantial losses to the aviation industry in terms of damage and delays every year. Techniques exist to control bird numbers on airfields and hence to reduce the numbers of wildlife strikes but they are applied at widely different levels from airport to airport. Some of this variation may be due to differing levels of strike risk at the different sites, but much of it is due to the unwillingness or inability of the airports concerned to invest in birdstrike prevention. Part of the reason for this reluctance to …