So I was reading this news story on yahoo, and could not stop laughing! After the plane crash into the Hudson river a couple weeks ago, NASA has been investigating how many 'birdstrikes' there have been on aircraft. The phrasing is actually 'birds striking' in some cases, as though these birds are specifically targeting plane's engines and windshields to get killed in!
The crazy thing is that the news story is acting as though this is something really new, or that it has been hidden from the public in some way...I don't know when I learned about birds flying into airplanes, but it was quite awhile ago, and I may have even deduced it myself--so this is perhaps an overreaction? After all, in the overwhelming majority of cases the only one to get hurt in these 'birdstrikes' is the bird itselfs. Perhaps these are the newest kind of suicide bombers?
The article is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_go_ot/airliners_birds
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