I suppose they expect us to believe this crock, but as we have seen over the years the propaganda pre$$ never tells the truth about plane crashes.
"Airport tests new way to avoid deadly bird strikes" by Scott Mayerowitz | Associated Press August 13, 2014
NEW YORK — When birds and planes collide, the results can be deadly. That’s why airports around the world work hard to keep birds away, even resorting to shooting or poisoning large flocks.
One Ohio airport is now experimenting with a new, gentler way to avoid bird strikes: planting tall prairie grass.
Heavy birds like geese — which cause the most damage to planes — are believed to avoid long grasses because they fear predators might be hiding within. So officials at Dayton International Airport are converting up to 300 acres of the airfield’s 2,200 nonaeronautical acres into prairie grass. The goal is, by the end of this year, to plant the tall grass under the takeoff and landing paths.
There are more than 10,000 airplane bird strikes a year in the United States. Most do little damage to the plane. The most frequent problem is damage to the engines. The FAA estimates that such damage costs the industry $950 million a year.
But some cause catastrophic damage. The forced landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009 occurred after Canada geese were pulled into both engines, causing the plane to lose power. Nobody died when the plane glided into the river.
The passengers of Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 in 1960 weren’t so lucky. The plane struck a flock of European starlings during takeoff. All four engines were damaged, and the aircraft crashed in Boston harbor; 62 people died.
Globally, wildlife strikes have killed more than 250 people and destroyed over 229 aircraft since 1988, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. In the past 23 years, there were 25 fatalities and 279 injuries linked to wildlife strikes in the United States. A little more than half of bird strikes occur from July to October, when young birds leave nests and fall migration occurs.
Between 2001 and 2013, there were 218 wildlife strikes at Dayton. The majority involved doves, pigeons, sparrows, and other small birds that didn’t cause severe damage. The airport sees 56 commercial planes landing and taking off each day. Two-thirds of those are smaller regional jets.
Airports often buy large parcels of adjacent land to create a buffer zone and limit the number of local residents affected by loud jet engines. Newer airports tend to be built next to tracts of empty land. Those large fields make great rest stops for migrating birds.
‘‘We operate airports in a smaller and smaller environment,’’ says Terrence G. Slaybaugh, director of Dayton’s airport. ‘‘If we are going to protect the long-term use of airports in an increasingly populated area we need to be less intrusive and find ways to contribute in a positive way to our surroundings.’’
The thick grass has other benefits: preventing water runoff, taking carbon dioxide out of the air, and requiring only one mowing every three years.
Bird lovers are also excited about the use of nonlethal methods to keep birds away from the airport.
The airport’s neighbor, the Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm, has been working closely with aviation officials on the tall grass project.
‘‘It’s a watershed moment. Our airport is embracing it,’’ says Charity Krueger, executive director of the center.
Still, the tactic could backfire: In the past, the FAA notes, grasses have led to increased rodent populations, a food source for raptors. Dayton’s initial test will run for three years.
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"Kin billed for death benefits of living man" Associated Press August 18, 2014
FINDLAY, Ohio — The government wants to recoup benefits paid to the daughters of a man who was declared legally dead and then turned up alive years later.
Donald Miller Jr. disappeared in the 1980s, and a death ruling in 1994 allowed his family to get Social Security benefits. When the 62-year-old Miller resurfaced last August, saying he had lived in other states and then returned to Ohio, the government apparently took notice.
Miller has tried unsuccessfully to undo his death. Even as he stood in court last year providing evidence of his existence, a Hancock County judge turned down a request to bring him back to life, citing a three-year limit for changing a death ruling. The judge did acknowledge it was problematic.
Now the Social Security Administration wants his two daughters to return more than $47,000 to cover benefits they received as teenagers, plus interest, his ex-wife, Robin Miller, told The Courier in Findlay.
I'm not approving of people committing fraud against the system; however, at the same time it is EVEN MORE DISGUSTING to see a CASH-GRABBING, MONEY-GRUBBING GOVERNMENT trying to TAKE BACK LOOT when THEY MADE the MISTAKE!
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You saw how much they wanted back, right?
Related: Lockheed Looted Social Security
Which was the bigger fraud?
