Jul 28, 2025 · “The data shows that strikes may happen every day, but damaging strikesremain rare events because of the research, analysis and mitigation strategies we implement and recommend, both domestically and internationally,” Weller said. More innovative mitigations are on the horizon. Mar 12, 2026 · Over the full 1990–2024 period, wildlife strikes with U.S. civil aircraft caused 82 fatalities and destroyed 126 aircraft. Globally, the toll is far higher — at least 643 deaths and more than 360 aircraft destroyed. Those figures underscore that this remains a lethal hazard when mitigation fails. Jul 28, 2025 · Visual depictions of wildlifestrikes from the database support trend analysis that informs FAA guidance for mitigating them, which helps keep the flying public safe and wildlife out of... Jul 21, 2025 · With air traffic increasing at Logan and pretty much everywhere else, Turner is a realist who knows that birdstrikes are a problem that cannot be stopped, only mitigated. Mar 1, 2023 · Pilots and air safety officials started paying close attention to airplanes that strike wildlife in 2009 after a US Airways jet with 155 people on board hit a flock of Canada geese and lost... Luckily your chances of a birdstrike that results in a fatality (for the human, the birds don’t fare so well) are infinitesimally small. In the past 30 years, fewer than 500 fatalities have occurred as a result of wildlife strikes globally for military and civil aviation, according to the FAA.