Summary
Firefighters at one of the region's airports play a lesser-known role as wildlife experts to save aviation businesses from serious accidents and expensive repair bills, as Business Editor Owen McAteer discovered
DURHAM Tees Valley Airport's (DTVA) fire service manager David Briggs has, as you might expect, a map of multiple flight paths pinned to the wall in his office. What may come asmore of a surprise is that the flight paths in question are not for aircraft but the migratory routes for flocks of birds.See the full content of this document
Extract
Firefighters Have to Watch the Birdies
Technical faults and terrorism are not the biggest dangers that aircraft regularly face, but rather birds and small animals.
They can potentially cause thousands of pounds worth of damage if sucked into an engine or strike a windscreen, given the high speeds the aircr...See the full content of this document
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