Wildlife strikes to civil helicopters in the US, 1990–2011 |
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| Institution: | 1. US Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, 6100 Columbus Avenue, Sandusky, OH 44870, USA;2. US Army, Logistics Division, Aberdeen Test Center, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD 25001, USA;1. Collaborative Innovation Centre on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), International Joint Laboratory on Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China;2. Togo National Meteorological Authority, P.O.Box: 1505, Lome, Togo;3. Department of Physical Sciences, Meru University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 972-60200, Meru, Kenya;1. University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business, H-4032 Debrecen, Böszörményi Street 138, Hungary;2. Central Statistical Office, Miskolc Division, Hungary;3. University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics, Hungary;4. University of Debrecen, Faculty of Engineering, Hungary;5. University of Szeged, Faculty of Engineering, Hungary;1. Department of Construction, School of Technology, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain;2. Department of Plant Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Badajoz, University of Extremadura, Spain;3. Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland;4. Department of Chemistry and Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Ireland;5. School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland;1. Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA;2. Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;3. Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA;4. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines wildlife strikes with civil helicopters within the US. Month and time of day, location, and other factors influenced the frequency of wildlife strikes with civil helicopters. Wildlife strikes occurred most frequently when the aircraft were traveling en route or engaged in terrain flight. Birds accounted for over 97% of the wildlife strikes where the animal was identified. |
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| Keywords: | Airfields Aviation accidents Helicopter Wildlife strikes |
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