@misc{10481/111246,
year = {2021},
month = {3},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111246},
abstract = {1. Birds striking aircrafts cause substantial economic loss world-wide
and, more
worryingly, human and wildlife fatalities. Designing effective measures to mitigate
fatal bird strikes requires an in-depth
knowledge of the characteristics of this
incident type and the flight behaviours of the bird species involved.
2. The characteristics of bird strikes involving aircraft crashes or loss of human life
in Spain were studied and compared to flight patterns of birds monitored by GPS.
We tracked 210 individuals of the three species that cause the most crashes and
human fatalities in Spain: griffon and cinereous vultures Gyps fulvus and Aegypius
monachus and white storks Ciconia ciconia.
3. All the crashes involved general aviation aircrafts, while none were recorded in commercial
aviation. Most occurred outside airport boundaries, at midday, and in the warmest
months, which all correspond with the maximum flight activity of the studied species.
4. Bird flight altitudes overlapped the legal flight altitude limit set for general aviation.
5. Policy implications. Mitigation of fatal bird strikes should especially address the
conflict between general aviation and large soaring birds. Air transportation authorities
should consider modifying the flight ceiling for general aviation flights
above the studied species' maximum flight altitude. Moreover, policymakers
should issue pilots with recommendations regarding the dates and times of peak
activity of large soaring bird species to improve flight safety.},
organization = {Junta de Andalucía (RNM-1925)},
organization = {Comunidad de Bardenas Reales de Navarra (CGL2012-32544 and CGL2015-66966-C2- 1-2-R)},
organization = {Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and EU/FEDER (CGL2015-66966-C2- 1-R2)},
organization = {CSIC (i-link 0564)},
organization = {U.S. Department of Energy (DE-EM0004391)},
organization = {Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (EXC 2117 – 422037984)},
organization = {MAVA Foundation},
publisher = {Wiley},
keywords = {Aircraft},
keywords = {Bird strikes},
keywords = {Cinereous vulture},
title = {Use of avian GPS tracking to mitigate human fatalities from bird strikes caused by large soaring birds},
doi = {10.1111/1365-2664.13893},
author = {Arrondo Floristán, Eneko and García-Alfonso, Marina and Blas, Julio and Cortés-Avizanda, Ainara and De la Riva, Manuel and Devault, Travis L. and Fiedler, Wolfgang and Flack, Andrea and Jimenez, José and Lambertucci, Sergio A. and Margalida, Antoni and Oliva-Vidal, Pilar and Phipps, Louis and Sánchez Zapata, José Antonio and Wikelski, Martin and Donázar, Jose Antonio},
}