This plan won’t fly: Transportation secretary rejects FAA secrecy on bird-plane collision data

WASHINGTON — The government is opening up its records of tens of thousands of collisions of birds with airplanes, such as the accident that led US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch into the Hudson River.

Transportation secretary rejects FAA plan to keep secret its data on bird-plane collisions

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is scrapping a proposal by the Federal Aviation Administration that would make secret its data on when and where birds and airplanes collide.

DOT Secretary LaHood to reject FAA plan to keep secret data on bird-plane collisions

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he intends to overrule the Federal Aviation Administration on its plan to keep secret data on where and when collisions between birds and airplanes occur.

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