N.Y. Post Demands All Geese Be Killed!!!
Bill Mulcahy
departed from LaGuardia Airport, the N.Y. Post has come out
with a front page demanding that all Geese be killed to prevent
another airliner crash. Are these protectors of safety going to
destroy every bird in the Atlantic Flyway that comes near an
airport?
As one who was driven from my home by round the clock
aircraft noise I think the N.Y. City airports should be
"plucked" and the wetland areas they were built on be
returned to the wildlife that have been displaced.
"Civilized" countries around the world are moving their
airports away from their cities; but not the USA!!! The
airline industry and their political agents can't increase
the airport noise and air polluting health impacts on
Americans fast enough.
Bill Mulcahy, editor of the Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm
HEY, GEESE, GET THE FLOCK OUT!
By BILL SANDERSON
Last updated: 3:54 pm
January 17, 2009
Posted: 2:20 am
January 17, 2009
"Round them up - and get rid of them!" Or even kill them if you like.
That's the sure answer to eliminating the potentially deadly Canada geese
that threaten air travel around New York, says wildlife biologist Steve
Garber, who once ran the wildlife-mitigation program at Kennedy, La Guardia
and Newark airports.
A double-goose hit is suspected of shutting down both engines of the US
Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River on Thursday, endangering
155 passengers and crew - all of whom miraculously survived.
The engines of the downed plane, an Airbus A320, are designed to withstand a
4-pound bird passing through the turbines, according to a spokesman for the
manufacturer.
But Canada geese can grow to more than three times that size.
A hit from a bird that large can shatter the blades inside the engines,
triggering serious vibrations that can shake the turbines loose from the
wings.
Government data show Canada geese are the biggest avian threat to airplanes
and jets, and caused $47.4 million worth of damage to airplanes from 1990 to
2007.
In that period, US pilots reported 1,109 strikes by Canada geese, including
568 that caused serious damage to aircraft - a damage rate of 51 percent.
That's far more damage than is caused by other birds. Bird strikes by all
species - estimated at 80,000 over the same period - damage planes just 11
percent of the time, federal data show.
Garber doubts Port Authority bureaucrats have the courage to eliminate the
threat in the face of four international treaties and federal and state laws
designed to protect Canada geese and other migratory birds - not to mention
the public outcry that results against anything perceived as cruel to
wildlife.
Nospam417
> http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm
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> HEY, GEESE, GET THE FLOCK OUT!
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> By BILL SANDERSON
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> Last updated: 3:54 pm
> January 17, 2009
> Posted: 2:20 am
> January 17, 2009
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> "Round them up - and get rid of them!" Or even kill them if you like.
> That's the sure answer to eliminating the potentially deadly Canada geese
There is no proof they were Canada geese.
Ratan X
> There is no proof they were Canada geese.
They weren't Canadian, they were Quebecois!
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Cheers,
Ratan