MINISTER OF DEFENCE (SHRI ARUN JAITLEY)
(a) & (b): The details of incidents of bird-hits in the last three years (2011-12 to 2013-14) and the current year are as under:
Financial No. of incidents Defence Personnel Year of bird hits injured / died 2011-12 159 NIL 2012-13 162 2013-14 183 2014-15 47 (Till 28.07.2014)
In addition, one accident due to bird-hit has also occurred during 2014-15 in which apart from loss of aircraft, one defence personnel lost his life.
(c) Armed Forces have taken various remedial measures like invigoration of Aviation Safety organization, streamlining of accident / incident reporting procedure, analytical studies and quality audits of the aircraft fleets to identify vulnerable areas to reduce aircraft accidents. Ornithology cell, which carries out bird surveys at flying bases and suggests bird prevention modules, has been established at the Directorate of Flight Safety.
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