Social Icons

twitterfacebooklinkedin

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Preventing bird hits ‘the natural way’

Airport Authority of India (AAI) are taking steps to discourage birds’ concentration near Coimbatore International Airport (CIA) that recorded 21 bird hits in 2014. It is learnt that over 75 per cent bird hits here are during landings and take off of flights.


An official from CIA was among the representatives of AAI across the country who participated in a conference on hazard to aviation by wildlife that was organised at Mumbai International Airport Limited last week to discuss the impact of birds and animals on airport operations. At the conference, ornithologists suggested measures to avoid bird hits in Coimbatore.
Read news in full 01/06/15 M.K.Ananth/The Hindu
Airport authority personnel have started growing grass on either side of the runway for a height of more than six inches to avoid bird hits.

No comments:

Post a Comment