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Old Jan 19, 2009 | 8:37 am
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Originally Posted by herro
Hi,

From a employee in CPH I have received the following stats on bird strikes in CPH:

Every year there is between 70-110 bird strikes

80% are small bird like swallows - under 100g
18% are medium sized like pigeons - 101-999g
2 % are the big ones - over 1000g

the big ones are then about 3-5 every year so still some, but compared to to total number of operations in CPH it is not a lot.

http://cphspotters.dk/gallery/albums...e_I-LINB03.jpg
http://cphspotters.dk/gallery/albums...e_I-LINB01.jpg

/HerrO
How does 2% of 70-110 add up to "3-5"?
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