A bird that was sucked into an engine during an Alaska Airlines flight Sunday actually wasn’t such a rare event.

What happens if a bird flies into a plane engine? The event is called a bird strike. Each year, bird strikes cost US airlines an estimated $1.2 billion. Only part of those costs are from actual ...

Undergoing an HSI helps identify minor cracks in non-rotating parts and check whether some parts need replacement, reported ...

A United Airlines flight was on descent into Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday, October 28th. As it was ...

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A Delta plane flying out of San Jose was diverted on Tuesday due to a reported bird strike.Airport officials say the incident ...

“Can confirm it was a bird strike on the way out,” Drawyah said in its post. A Queenstown resident shared a video of the plane’s engine spewing fire with the New Zealand Herald. The short ...

Cattle Egret. Photo: Nathan Rupert – flickr.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) ...

A Southwest US-bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing after birds struck the plane's engine, the airline said. The plane - flying from Havana to Fort Lauderdale, Florida - filled ...