A timely and relevant analysis of the continuing hazard to aircraft posed by bird strikes. The dramatic landing of a US Airways A-320 Airbus in the Hudson River in 2009 after its engines were destroyed by a flock of birds can be traced directly to the failure to learn the lessons of the 1960 crash of the Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra off Logan International Airport.
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