Why do birds often crash into airplanes?

It has been a long time since the mystery of why birds are so nimble to avoid everything being stabbed into planes or trucks that are no longer mentioned. However, the latest research from scientists has partly explained this phenomenon.

According to US scientists, they found the reason why many birds often stabbed or crashed into planes and trucks. The main reason given is that birds do not consider the speed of obstacles to avoid, but only the distance between them and obstacles at a given time.

This is also the cause of many birds stabbing or being stabbed by aircraft or trucks because these vehicles often have relatively fast speeds, usually over 120km / h. This situation has led to the death of thousands of birds every year along with creating potential aviation disasters. According to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), there are about 9,000 birds hit by planes in the United States each year and this number is certainly not all because there are quite a number of birds that crash into the plane themselves. Other reports.

Crashes into birds often not only kill innocent animals, but they can also hurt pilots if they rush into the cockpit. In addition, as said it also poses a serious threat to the safety of a flight because at times they can also damage aircraft engines and lead to many other serious incidents.

The consequences of a collision between a plane and a bird when the plane is landing

To investigate the cause of this bird phenomenon, a group of scientists from the US Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Research Center in Ohio, in conjunction with two other universities, Indiana and Purdue used virtual reality technology to study this phenomenon in more detail.

The researchers found that the birds they studied often could not avoid transports with speeds greater than 120km / h . Basically, they can still avoid this unfortunate death by choosing the right time to be alerted and diverting other routes as shown in the diagram calculated by the scientists below.

In a deeper experiment, the researchers experimented on a limp bird in a dark room. By using virtual reality technology, they tested the bird that had been hit by the truck several times at a speed of 60 - 360km / h (the usual flying speed of some small planes and the takeoff speed of one number of commercial aircraft).

Then when they measured the bird's reaction, the scientists discovered that it seemed to react based on the distance they felt for the truck and instead ignored the "terrible" speed. but the truck is coming.

Studies have also found that birds tend to start flying when the object is only about 30 meters away. At the same time, due to the distance of taking off and vigilance of birds is similar to the speed of the vehicles, they are often at the right time when the speed of the vehicles is higher. both.

While most birds can easily handle situations with slow moving objects, it seems that they have difficulty finding ways to escape fast-moving objects from 120km. / h or more, like trucks and planes.

Currently some airports use dogs to scare away birds, avoid unfortunate accidents at takeoff and landing.

According to scientists, this study will need to be conducted further in the future to check whether the avoidance techniques of other birds are similar. In addition, scientists have suggested a solution for the installation of special lights on airplanes that help warn birds from afar. Hopefully, the above studies will continue to be improved in the near future and soon applied in practice to solve this aching problem of aviation.