A buzzard boosts air safety in France

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Pilots all over the world fear birds strikes. Birds can take down an entire airplane when they strike engine blades. At the French airport of Nantes, buzzard Tucuman helps prevent accidents by chasing away other of birds

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00:00Buzzard to command can be a lifesaver.

00:03He supports safe take-offs and landings at Monde Airport

00:07by scaring away other birds to prevent collisions with aircraft.

00:21Pilots around the world fear bird strikes.

00:24An accident in South Korea in 2024 was probably caused by birds

00:30that got sucked into the aircraft's engines.

00:34Nonde Airport, border as a river, a lake and the nearby sea with countless birds.

00:40This increases the risk of collisions.

00:43But to command isn't always in the mood for chasing birds.

00:47It's like the high-level athletes.

00:49If the weight is too low, it's not going to be able to fly.

00:54If the weight is too high, it's going to be put in a tree

00:57where it's going somewhere and it's not going to fly.

01:00It's like eating a big hamburger before going to a marathon.

01:07So if the buzzard doesn't feel like doing his job,

01:10Anthony has to resort to more traditional methods of scaring birds away.

01:17The way with the wind is that they are going to be życie.

01:19When a bird is not in the air, they've been running the tracks.

01:20The way with the wind is being moved.

01:21The way with the wind is being used.

01:25The way with the wind is moving forward.

01:30The wind is running directly from southeast-

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