Moments before the plane was due to land, air traffic control issued a bird strike warning – an alert for the risk of bird strikes. The investigation will seek to confirm whether a bird strike led to ...

Bird-inspired flaps improve airplane lift by 45% Airplane wings with bird-like flaps reduce drag by 31% Bird-inspired design prevents stalls, improves stability ...

The two who survived — flight attendants aged 25 and 33 — were rescued from the back of the plane during the initial search, according to South Korea’s Yonhap. A girl watches a TV screen broadcasting ...

Thousands of bird strikes are reported each year, but very few lead to fatal accidents (file pic) South Korean officials are conducting an emergency safety investigation after 179 people died in ...

One of the passengers on the ill-fated plane that crashed Sunday morning sent a text message about the aircraft “not being able to land because of a bird on a wing,” in one of the last known texts ...

Pic: Lee Young-ju/Newsis/AP The airport's control tower warned the plane about possibility of a bird strike and gave the pilot permission to land in a different area to normal, according to South ...

This program implements a recursive naive bayesian classifier to address the problem of bird-airplane collisions at airports by classifying radar tracks into two classes: birds and airplanes. The ...

How dangerous are bird strikes? Bird strikes are very rarely linked to fatal plane crashes. Engines could stall or shut down if birds are sucked into them, but pilots typically have time to ...

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A bird strike and adverse weather likely caused a fatal Jeju Air crash in Korea, the local fire chief said Sunday, as video showed the plane being engulfed in flames on landing. "The cause of the ...

The plane crashed in an empty field southwest of the intersection of I Street and 14th Street, leaving its only occupant with ...

Minutes later, the pilot issued a mayday call before attempting an emergency landing — with a video showing the plane coming down on the runway without its landing gear engaged. Bird strikes can ...