Soaring deer populations are nuisances for airports and threats to pilots and planes, according to a report from ABC News. From 1990 to 2013, there were 1,088 collisions between planes and deer, elk, moose and caribou, according to a recent joint report by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Agriculture Department. Most of the planes suffered damage, and some were destroyed, the report said. One person was killed and 29 others injured. Read the full report here.
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Sounds to me that someone here is “passing the buck” ?
According to the report which I located on the FAA website, the number of wildlife strikes increased by 610% between 1990 and 2013!! The executive summary says: “The number of strikes annually reported has increased 6.1-fold from 1,851 in 1990 to a
record 11,315 in 2013 (142,603 strikes for 1990-2013). Birds were involved in 97.0
percent of the reported strikes, terrestrial mammals in 2.2 percent, bats in 0.7 percent
and reptiles in 0.1 percent”. It also says the number of airports with strikes more than doubled in the same period. During the same period populations of birds and terrestrial mammals also experienced significant growth. Evidently the predicted severly adverse impact of climate warming has winners as well as losers among wildlife populations.
You have a link to the abc news report. Where is the FAA report on deer population growth and the impact on aviation safety??? Please include links to the source study, not just an article by some reporter that you’ve stripped from the web.