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Airplane collisions with birds have more than doubled at 13 major U.S. airports since 2000, and New York’s Kennedy airport and Sacramento International report the most incidents with serious damage, according to Federal Aviation Administration data releas
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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 1995, file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force a section of the Elmendorf Air Force Base runway 5 is seen in Anchorage, Alaska, after an E-3 AWACS jet collided with more than 30 Canada geese, causing a crash shortly after...
