May 27, 2012
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Pilots on alert for high-flying vulture
21 August 2010 / REUTERS, LONDON
Britain’s air traffic controllers put pilots on alert this week after a vulture which can soar as high as 30,000 feet escaped from her handlers during a display.
Gandalf, a seven-year-old Ruppell’s Vulture with a three-meter wingspan, has not been seen since she caught a warm thermal during a show at the World of Wings centre in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Nats, Britain’s air traffic control company, said it had made pilots aware of the possibility of seeing the bird, while the aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, said bird strike is a constant threat to aviation. “She caught a nice thermal and was gone,” Alan Galloway, director at World of Wings, told Reuters. “I had a mixture of feelings. She was like a ballerina in the sky, changing from this big lumbering bird on the ground.” Most airborne collisions involve birds flying into engines, forcing some aircraft into an emergency landing.
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