Jun 30, 2009 3:52 pm US/Eastern
Miami Plane Lands Safely After NYC Bird Strike
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American Airlines Flight 1256, a Boeing 737 en route from Miami to LaGuardia Airport, landed safely after declaring a bird strike about 900 feet before it landed on June 30, 2009.
CBS
It was a close call Tuesday for an American Airlines flight from Miami which landed safely at New York's LaGuardia Airport after reporting a bird strike.
FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac says the bird strike was reported by Flight 1256 at an altitude of 900 feet shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday.
After landing safely, the Miami-New York Boeing 737-800 taxied part way to the gate when it reported trouble with the nose gear. It was then towed into the gate.
American's spokesman, Tim Smith, says the 135 passengers were not aware of any trouble and disembarked normally.
Salac says a preliminary inspection indicates a single bird struck a hydraulic line in the plane's nose gear.
Airplane collisions with birds have more than doubled at 13 major U.S. airports since 2000, and New York's Kennedy airport and Sacramento International report the most incidents with serious damage, according to Federal Aviation Administration data.
There were 87 reported strikes near LaGuardia last year. Most caused no damage.
The FAA list of wildlife strikes, published on the Internet, details more than 89,000 incidents since 1990, including 28 cases since 2000 when a collision with a bird or other animal such as a deer on a runway was so severe that the aircraft was considered destroyed, including the Hudson River landing of Flight 1549 in January.
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