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Was it 1902 that the bird hit the plane for the first time in the world?
No, it is 1905.

1903, the Wright brothers flew the plane for the first time, and they were the first to report the bird hitting the plane. According to the diary of the Wright brothers,1September 7, 905, they killed a bird while flying a plane.

Although birds will hit the plane in most cases, animals such as deer, coyotes, bats and alligators will also hit the plane many times during take-off and landing. According to the statistics of American Bird Strike Committee, between 1990 and 2007, there were more than 760 incidents of deer colliding with passenger planes and about 250 incidents of coyotes colliding with passenger planes in the United States.

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A brief introduction to the content of "Birds Hit Planes";

The bird's impact on the plane is too destructive. According to calculation, a Canadian goose crashed into a passenger plane taking off and landing at a speed of 240 km/h, and its impact force was equivalent to that of an object weighing 400 kg falling from a height of 3 meters. This impact force is enough to crash the aircraft engine and cause the plane to crash.

Birds usually fly at low altitude, so the plane is most prone to bird collision when taking off and landing. This is why most bird collision accidents occur in airports and the airspace near airports below 1500m, so civil and military airports all over the world are equipped with bird repellent equipment. The plane flies at an altitude of 6000m to1000m most of the time. There are fewer birds here, so there are fewer collisions.

Bird collision with aircraft has become one of the important factors threatening aviation safety. According to the statistics of American Bird Strike Committee, in the United States alone, the economic loss caused by the collision of birds and other wild animals with airplanes exceeds 600 million dollars every year, and at least 2 19 people have died since 1988.

There are thousands of incidents of birds colliding with planes all over the world every year, but not every time. According to the information released by the American Bird Strike Committee on its website, the Canadian geese are heavier (more than 3.6 kg), which also causes great damage to the aircraft, and the probability of impact damage reaches 57%; However, the damage caused by the impact of rock pigeons is general, and the probability is12%; In contrast, the probability that a swallow hits an airplane and causes injury is only 1.4%.

The civil aviation resource network-bird collision with aircraft has become one of the important factors threatening aviation safety.