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Flight risk. A close call위기일발 for a jumbo jet proves again airplanes and geese in the same airspace are a bad mix. But what to do about it? There has been another close call involving a commercial airliner, a jumbo jet, this time and a flock of geese. This one happened in the skies over New Jersey. Witnesses describe the collision as loud and terrifying. A reminder of the danger of birds and plane sharing the same airspace. The story tonight from NBC’s Tom Costello.

 

It was a harrowing괴로운 90 minutes Wednesday for the 301 people on board a fully loaded jumbo jet. Continental flight 99 from Newark to Hong Kong left at 6:31 and was only 300 feet in the air when it ran into a flock of Canada geese immediately raising concern that the plane’s engines might not make it the 16 hours to Asia. The radar track shows the Boeing 777 circling over New Jersey for nearly 90 minutes while it dumped jet fuel before landing safely back at Newark. The fuel mist안개 evaporating증발하다 in the sky.

 

Retired 777 captain Tom Casing knows about dumping 137,000 pounds of fuel. He once, had to aboard a New York to Tokyo flight. “If you have to come back, you have to land light because the plane can’t take a landing at those heavy weights. 100…...200,000 pounds of fuel.” Last year’s miracle on the Hudson flight drove home to bird risk after geese took out both engines. In the first nine months of 2009, reports of bird strikes were up 24% to just over 7,200. But that sudden jump is largely because of better reporting.

 

While the geese population is exploding, wild life experts insist loud cannons, bird trapping egg and nest removals have already make airports much safer. “But I think the threat is growing outside of the airport environment.” That’s what happened in November as Frontier Flight 820 departed Kansas City for Denver. “Mayday, Mayday, Frontier 820, multiple bird strikes.” Frontier 820 landed safely on one engine.

 

To deal with the out of airport threat, airports are now experimenting with bird radar to guide planes around large flocks and also putting strobe lights플래시 라이트 on planes to scare birds away, all in an effort to reduce costly and potentially deadly encounters in the skies. Tom Costello, NBC News, Washington.

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