Flight 1549 Bird Strike Lab Visit

http://dsc.discovery.com/tech Aircraft bird strikes are on the rise; two Canada geese brought down Flight 1549 into the Hudson recently. And the Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab - BSI for short - is on the case. Kasey-Dee Gardner investigates the three ways the lab IDs thousands of feathers, and why they're so important to improving airport safety.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• airplane
• bird strike
• air plane crash
• disaster
• death
• accident
• flight 1549
• miracle on the hudson

[biologyprodigy]

Looks like a job for Mike Rowe.

[forint93]

lol.....

[RMary]

Haaaaaaa are they still going kill all birds close to NY NY.. and people starving our country.. .. Our town have so many black crackles we call them and spend lot of money to kill, there is agood food source there also..

Rose

[myjuliaisacutie]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :( sorry, and i was an english teacher!!!! well my german is no good! can you teach me!

[freak92xxx]

Im sorry, im not really good at english.. im german

[RenoDoctor]

The Smithsonian Bird Lab, by its own admission, can't positively identify any bird species without DNA extracted from properly collected and preserved blood sample. No blood was recovered from AWE1549, therefore no ID could've been made. This Discovery Channel segment is made-for-TV fraud, as is the alleged Canada Geese feather recovered from the left engine with five other fragments. No feather would ever survive such a physical pounding in that remarkably good condition.

[billaroyamaha2]

quieter engines and faster!!!! really!!??? is that what has happened to airplanes? give me a break! many planes are pushing 15-20 yrs,,,,, oh,, that's right, we have more birds now,,, jeeesh

[billaroyamaha2]

learn to spell knob , knob. :))

[freak92xxx]

than the world would have too many other animals, the birts eating...

think about that noob ;))

[Ayyyey]

WHY not just kill all birds?

They shit on your car anyway.

[Iamfukenripped]

LAWL!

[kittypet123]

lol totaly