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Some of the busiest airports in the United States will soon begin to test experimental radar system designed to detect flocks of birds and to assist pilots to avoid the kind of shot down a plane crash that the company made U.S. Airways almost two weeks.

The sectors to point out that air traffic controllers could someday use the technology to stop-offs, new routes and schedule might warn pilots about the presence of birds to take actions in order to evade them.


The new technology uses an inexpensive communication antennas maritime radar, such as those used in fishing vessels and a computer program designed to track the birds as they gather and fly distances of up to 10 kilometers (six miles) from an airport.

The dangers of the birds are fully illustrated since January 15 when a U.S. Airways plane lost power in both engines apparently after hitting a flock just 90 seconds after leaving LaGuardia Airport. The pilot managed acuatizar the plane in the Hudson River, saving the 155 people on board.


Managers to detect Inc., a company dedicated to producing radar to detect birds, based in Panama City, Florida, say such systems one day prevent such mishaps, to enable flight controllers to know when groups of birds near the aviation routes.

Other experts and the Federal Aviation Administration said that these technologies are not proven and require years of refinement. However, they have demonstrated the potential for the agency to conduct more tests.