Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120420:17:55:00
Stats, we have 179 souls on board. >> reporter: the majority of bird strikes take place at a low altitude of 500 feet or less. since 198 219 people have been killed because of birds hitting planes. the problem is getting worse because of a number of reasons, among them an increase in the bird population caused by conservation. aircraft today are less noisy and they simply aren't scaring bird away. we are hearing more about the problem because of better reporting. every since a u.s. airways plane hit a flock of geese and they made an emergency landing in the hudson river bird strikes ignored ...
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