Hardly a week goes by without a plane somewhere in the US making an emergency landing after hitting birds. As these incidents reach record levels, airports are coming up with increasingly imaginative ways of combating them. A Southwest Airlines plane recently made an emergency return to Tennessee's Nashville International Airport after hitting birds at take-off. There was a similar incident at Chicago's O'Hare Airport a few weeks ago and another involving an Alaska Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Oakland while en route to Honolulu. According to a report by the Federal Aviation Administration, the number of bird strikes has increased nearly six-fold since 1990...
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