Philly airport also on the lookout for birds
Friday, January 16th, 2009
By: Fit Staff
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By: Peter Crimmins
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The plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River yesterday took off from La Guardia airport, which shares something with Philadelphia International. Both are along the same migratory bird flight corridor. The flight is reported to have gone down because birds got caught in its engines. Philadelphia Airport makes efforts to avoid a similar accident here. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports.
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