The number of collisions between birds and aircraft has rapidly increased over the last two decades, despite better technology to combat them.
The US Airways plane that improbably wound up floating in the Hudson River has drawn attention to bird strikes, but a U.S. Department of Agriculture and Federal Aviation Administration joint report (pdf), released in June of 2008, warned that the danger birds pose to both commercial and military airplanes was on the rise.
According to the report, from 1990 to 2007 there were 82,057 bird strikes. The trends in the collisions are disturbing as well: In 1990, the industry saw 1,738 bird strikes; in 2007, the number had increased to 7,666. Some of that trend is due to increased air travel, but the number of wildlife strikes has tripled from 0.527 to 1.751 per 10,000 flights.
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Obviously this is a calculated terrorist attack from avian species, whose desires to destroy homo sapiens springs from an ineradicable, misdirected bitterness over their de-evolution from superior ancestors, i.e. the dinosaurs.
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