Hit-and-Run FOD
Two ground workers employed by British Airways face criminal charges after failing to report that their baggage truck had collided…
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Bird Strike Sends Airliner into Hudson River
In another dramatic example of the dangers of wildlife FOD, a US Airways A320 passenger jet ditched into the water shortly after takeoff, sinking the plane but, once again, causing no fatalities. Read More...
Investigation – Bird Strike Caused Brussels Crash
The ingestion of a kestrel into the starboard engine is the likely cause of the May 25, 2008 crash of…
Sweet Tooth Creates FOD Incident, Damages Ground Equipment
Carelessness can trigger FOD and ruin your day in a hurry. Every day FOD damages equipment on a flight line…
Did Mystery FOD Ground A380?
The middle eastern airline Emirates believes that an unidentified "foreign object" in an electrical system caused the September grounding of…
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Flock of Birds Damages 737
They're ganging up on us: an Estonian Air Boeing 737 en route to Oslo suffered multiple points of damage while…
The Night before Flight 9, in the Land of FOD
The Night before Flight 9, in the Land of FOD -- a very close call by Fred "The FODFixer" Reid…
Falcons Protect British Airport
For the past fifteen years, a wildlife specialist has used specially-trained raptors to chase birds from Leeds Bradford International Airport.…
Assessing Your Airport’s FOD Culture
Rat In Da Vat! Assessing Your Airport's FOD Culture by Master Sergeant Steven Ball Foreign Object Debris (FOD) in aircraft…
IT’S OK TO GET CAUGHT HOLDING THE BAG – JUST MAKE SURE ITS A FOD BAG By Bill Haas
If you think about it, “foreign objects” are not a problem unless they are not Deposited correctly and therefore cause…
Concorde Crash Updates
For a detailed timeline of all the events that led up to and since the French Concorde crash, visit www.aviation.about.com.…
FOD Is A Dirty Word
From THE NET - The Atlanta Worldport Safety Newsletter In 2005 Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Cost Us About $16,000,000 Whether…
Feathers Can Cause Hard Landings!
September 2004 A major US airline flight departing Chicago O’Hare Airport with over one hundred passengers on board experienced a…
Fod Wars
From super scoopers to super sleuths, the arsenal to prevent FOD has new entries. Separated from its coffee-cup companion, a…