Bird Strike Data and Analysis

BIRD STRIKE DATA AND ANALYSIS
FRANKIE JO O’LEARY, 6/30/2017
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY – ST. PAUL, BUS388 – ANALYTICS AND TECHNOLOGY

FINDING -1
Bird strikes may occur during any phase of flight
but are most likely during the take-
off, initial climb, approach and landing phases
due to the greater numbers of birds fly at lower
levels.

HISTORY OF BIRD STRIKES
 The first bird-aircraft collision (later referred to as a bird strike) was recorded in 1905,
starting the history of bird strikes (Dolbeer, n.d.)
 Bird strikes cost the aviation industry $900 million per year (Houston, 2016)
 The most fatal bird strike in history was Eastern Airlines 375, which crashed and suffered
62 fatalities (Houston, 2016)
 US military aircraft had about 5,000 bird strikes in 2016 (Tedeschi, 2017)
 According to the FAA, there have been 25 human fatalities between 1990 and 2013,
attributed to wildlife strikes with US civil aircraft, and they do not consider this result to be
a common occurrence for bird strike effects

FINDING ACCORDING TO ORIGIN STATES VS SKY CONDITIONS
Cost of Bird Strikes
 There is a cost range from $0 to nearly
$50 million
 The point of this data is to tell people how
much bird and wildlife strikes are costing
each state
 Some states like California and New York
have an excessive overall cost due to strikes
on their planes
 Northwestern states like Wyoming, Montana,
and Idaho have little to no cost
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