FAA updates turbofan bird-strike rules, 14 years after US Airways flight 1549

US Airways A320 Hudson River

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Fourteen years after bird strikes forced the ditching of US Airways flight 1549 into the Hudson River, the Federal Aviation Administration has completed a rule intended to make aircraft engines more resilient to ingesting birds.

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