Originally Posted by
Jimmy Hoffa Rocks
The birds have been there before the airports
Apparently not the geese, at least not in these numbers. A few years ago the CAA wrote this:
In the 1970s and 1980s the population of geese was
such that goose strikes were rare. Hence the
probability of a multiple engine incident was
considered extremely remote. However the Canada
Goose population in North America has increased
from 2 million in 1990 to 5.7 million today 10, and the
trend continues.
In 1953 the then small, and previously stable, UK
population of about 3,000 geese began to increase at
an average rate of about 8% per year. The UK goose
population was over 73,000 by 1991 and has now
reached around 130,000 11.
See:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/1437/srg_a...-01-030303.pdf