Philly airport also on the lookout for birds
By: Peter Crimmins
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.
By: Peter Crimmins
pcrimmins@whyy.org
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. [audio: reports20090116airport.mp3]
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