![]() In the year from November 2018, there were 565 strikes near Schiphol, peaking in the summer. ![]() This was also the cause of the famous US Airways near-disaster in 2009, when both engines lost all power and the captain, Chesley Sullenberger, had to land his stricken Airbus A320 on the Hudson River. ![]() Two years ago, a KLM Boeing 747 was hit by one such suspected “bird strike”, and had to return to the airport. The 19 pigs have been enjoying life on a 2-hectare (5-acre) plot between two runways, turning a field of crop residue into a muddy haven and eating the food that attracts the birds, which can collide with planes and in the worst cases even get sucked into engines. A group of animals has been drafted in to combat a hazard in the skies above the runways of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, the Netherlands’ aviation hub.Ī six-week pilot project is studying whether a small herd of pigs can deter flocks of geese and other birds attracted to discarded sugar beet on nearby farmland.
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