Health & Safety
Landfill site 'planning measures against air bird strikes'
Jan 26 2009
The landfill site, located in Robin Hood Bay, lies in close proximity to St Johns International Airport and has pledged to help reduce the number of birds in the area, reported the Winnipeg Sun.
Among the measures being adopted are the use of pyrotechnics to scare birds away, though some will have to be shot down, says manager of waste for the area Jason Sinyard.
"You may have your pyrotechnics [ ] but if you don't have some lethal means to back that up, the gulls very quickly get used to the scare tactics," he stated.
This news comes after a plane which was leaving New York's La Guardia airport for North Carolina experienced double-engine failure as it flew through a flock of geese earlier this month.
The pilots managed to land the plane in the Hudson River without a single casualty.
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