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Jan. 16, 2009 -- The location of an airport, along with the level of provided protection, can heighten or decrease the chances of a bird air strike, like the two strikes thought to have forced U.S. Airways flight 1549 into New York's Hudson River yesterday, suggest federal officials.
In the end, no matter how well an airport fends off birds, it only protects the first few seconds and last few seconds of flight - that which is contained within the airport perimeter.
LGA could have had the best wildlife abatement program in existence, and it wouldn't have made one bit of difference as this strike occurred several miles north of the airport and 3200 feet above the ground.
These stories focusing on airport bird control seems to be sensationalizing this whole event (surprise) and somehow want to focus on airports for this. Ridiculous.
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