A
city college faculty member has come forward to carry out a detailed study on
bird activity in and around Tiruchi international airport and suggest
scientific measures to control bird hits suffered by flights.
Q.
Ashoka Chakkaravarthy from the Department of Foundation Courses of St. Joseph’s
College has proposed to carry out the study by adopting certain scientific
methodologies.
Mr.
Chakkaravarthy has already got in touch with the Tiruchi airport authorities in
this regard and conveyed his interest to carry out the study free of cost as a
public service.
The
scientific study would analyse the activity of birds hovering in and around
Tiruchi airport and suggest scientific measures that could be taken to control
instances of bird hits suffered by flights.
The
Tiruchi international airport had witnessed instances of bird hits suffered by
flights in the past.
Interested
in wildlife especially micro fauna, Mr. Chakkaravarthy, an ecologist, says the
study would be detailed including the identifying the bird species that hovered
in airport’s vicinity.
Mr.
Chakkaravarthy says he is expecting black kite, pigeon species, egret species,
and Indian Pond heron.
However,
the study would only reveal regarding the bird species that were found flying
in Tiruchi airport and its vicinity.
The
study would look into the bird strikes in the past, their timing, the
locations, and the species of bird striking aircraft, he said.
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