Travel Law Briefing – Bird strikes and extraordinary circumstances

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07/06/2017

The phenomenon of bird strikes is one that has plagued the airline industry for many years.
Indeed, an American study on animal peril from 2011shows that 99,441 collisions between a
plane and an animal had been reported since 1990. In 97.4 per cent of the cases it was a
collision with a bird.

June 2017 – Travel Law Briefing – Bird strikes and extraordinary circumstances

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