The number and rate of reported bird strikes involving Australia’s high capacity air transport aircraft1 increased significantly in 2014 and 2015 — the last years for which final data are available, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.
In its report, Australian Aviation Wildlife Strike Statistics, 2006 to 2015, the ATSB said it received reports of 1,977 bird strikes across Australia in 2015, and of that number, 1,227 (62 percent) involved high capacity air transport aircraft. The total of 1,977 was the highest number reported in any of the 10 years covered by the report, up from 1,946 strikes in 2014 and 1,234 strikes in 2006; the 10-year total was 16,096 (Table 1).
