XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, alt.usenet.kooks, rec.arts.poems   
   From: kozelsm@comcast.net   
      
   §ñühw¤£f wrote:   
   >   
   > I propose a technological solution to the problem of bird strikes:   
   > turboprops.   
   > Lets return to the good old days pre-jet engines.   
   >   
   > Discuss.   
      
   On Oct. 4, 1960, 62 people died when Eastern Airlines Flight 375 plunged   
   wing-first into Boston Harbor after flying into a flock of birds shortly   
   after takeoff. It was the first commercial airline crash in Logan   
   Airport's history, the deadliest air disaster in New England history at   
   the time, and it remains the most deadly crash in US history involving a   
   bird strike.  Nine of the 10 survivors had serious injuries.   
      
   The Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra four-engine turbo-prop airliner   
   had 72 people aboard and was bound for Atlanta. The plane flew into a   
   flock of starlings at an altitude of 400 feet. Three engines lost power,   
   and the plane stalled and spun, crashed into water 200 yards offshore,   
   and broke in half.   
      
   http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/   
   6/deadliest_crash_involving_birds_boston_1960/   
      
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