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Bird Strike Summary Report - 1994

1994 Summary Report - Bird Strikes to Canadian Aircraft
Section 1 - Introduction

1.1 How This Report is Organized

This report is organized into four major sections.

  1. Section 1: Introduction
  2. Section 2: Overall Bird Strike Situation - a general overview of the Canadian bird strike situation including those strikes which involved either Canadian military or civilian aircraft, in Canada and abroad.
  3. Section 3: Bird Strikes at Canadian Airports - key aspects of the bird strike situation as they apply to Canadian airports, from a regional and local perspective.
  4. Section 4: Bird Strikes to Military Aircraft - a focus on that segment of bird strikes involving Canadian military aircraft.

Note:

The following points should be kept in mind when reviewing the information in this report:

  • The data has been generated from bird strike reports and for all practical reasons provides a reasonably clear description of the 1994 bird strike situation. However, there is no way of knowing precisely how many strikes go unreported, or how they may or may not affect information in this report.

  • The "% of total strikes" is based on the number of reported strikes including those where an item was not reported.

  • The definition of a bird strike, as agreed to by the Bird Strike Committee Canada, is as follows:

    • a bird strike is deemed to have occurred whenever:

    • a pilot reports a bird strike

    • aircraft maintenance personnel identify damage to an aircraft as having been caused by a bird strike

    • personnel on the ground report seeing an aircraft strike one or more birds

    • bird remains, whether in whole or in part, are found on an airside pavement area or within 200 feet of a runway, unless another reason for the bird's death is identified.

Date modified:
2010-05-03