Terrorists are using birds to attack our airplanes!

[Ian David]

WASHINGTON - Terrorists may seek to down aircraft by shining powerful lasers into cockpits to blind pilots during landing approaches, federal officials are warning in a bulletin distributed nationwide.

The memo sent by the FBI and the Homeland Security Department says there is evidence that terrorists have explored using lasers as weapons, though there is no specific intelligence indicating al-Qaida or other groups might use lasers in the United States.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terrorists_laser_beam

That's just stupid.

Here's the REAL problem...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, through an interagency agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration, compiles a database of all reported bird/wildlife strikes to U.S. civil aircraft and to foreign carriers experiencing strikes in the USA. Over 38,000 strike reports from 1,300 airports have been compiled, 1990-2001 (about 5,900 strikes in 2000). The FAA estimates that this represents only about 20% of strikes that have occurred.



You've got to read this to see just how dangerous these birds are.
http://www.birdstrike.org/commlink/top_ten.htm

We need to stop worrying about "terrorist lasers" and worry more about the damn birds.



I CAN PROVE THE LINK BETWEEN SUICIDE BIRD ATTACKS AND OSAMA BIN LADEN!!!

Here, ladies and gentlemen, is photographic proof.

Exhibit A:



Exhibit B:



Exhibit C:



Any questions?



The following is a selected list of recent bird strikes to civil and military aircraft.
http://www.birdstrike.org/events/signif.htm

[lenidog]

1. The French solved that problem at their

air force bases. They hired falconers to roam the bases and it almost eliminated the problem within a year.