Pilots’ actions after the bird strike are an early focus of the investigation, according to people familiar with the probe.

The recent tragic accident involving a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 in South Korea has been strongly linked to the aftermath of a ...

Bird strikes to aircraft are a reality. While the vast majority of reported bird strikes are of no consequence to people, failing to cause any aircraft damage or delays, on occasion bird strikes cause ...

UDRI's researchers can perform a wide variety of bird strike and foreign object damage (FOD) impact tests on aircraft structures or aircraft engine components. Projectiles as small as grains of sand ...

Only part of those costs are from actual damage. The rest comes from flight ... Between 1990-2015 there were 160,894 bird strikes on US aircraft. Only .025% (40) of those strikes resulted in ...

South Korean officials investigating the fatal Jeju Air crash have published a preliminary report of the accident.

Though it's pretty well-known that bird strikes can cause major damage to commercial planes, less is known about the impact of drones on airplanes.

In the US, wildlife strikes cause more than $900 million in damage to aircraft each year and have resulted in more than 250 fatalities since 1988. Data from the US Federal Aviation Administration ...

Civil aircraft include both airliners and ... Most of the time, bird strikes will cause damage to airlines, but pilots are safely able to land the plane. American Airlines, for example, suffered ...

These are two extreme examples that demonstrate that bird strikes can cause substantial damage to aircraft engines. However, the important point to note is that these aren't typical circumstances.

Both engines of the aircraft involved in last month’s fatal Jeju Air crash in South Korea were found with bird remnants, though it remains unclear how much damage each sustained before the plane ...