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Birds killed by plane
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:30 pm
by Andy
We were racing from Brighton at the weekend along with 2 other organisations. We received a message today from the duty manager for operations side of Heathrow airport. He informed that on Saturday morning there was a bird strike on a plane coming into land at Heathrow. It appeared that the birds were racing pigeons released from Brighton. The ring numbers of 11 pigeons were posted all of which were dead. Whether other birds were caught up wasn’t known. It seems that it was a convoy of birds heading North as ours wouldn’t be going anywhere near to Heathrow. Just feel so sorry for the birds and their owners.
Re: Birds killed by plane
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 5:48 am
by Buster121
What a terrible shame, sadly not the first time and doubt will be the last
Re: Birds killed by plane
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:07 am
by Devo1956
A really dad blow to find out like that, we have a few strikes at Liverpool airport.
Re: Birds killed by plane
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:19 am
by Murray
Oooh
That's not good. I wonder if there have been other cases of racing pigeons being killed by bird strike?
Re: Birds killed by plane
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 9:57 am
by Buster121
Murray wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:19 am
Oooh
That's not good. I wonder if there have been other cases of racing pigeons being killed by bird strike?
A few over the years, there used to be some videos on youtube showing some