The purpose of this report is to generally investigate bird-strikes and the unique case for COPA Airlines and Tocumen International Airport in Panama. It explores the reasons why bird-strikes occur and mitigation methods used before applying them to COPA Airlines and Tocumen International’s bird-strike problem to help illuminate the issue and offer potential solutions such as purchasing avian radars or shaping the environment on and off the airport to make them unattractive to birds.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Younis, Omar S.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-052915-004947

Keyword

• Technology and Environment

Advisor

• El-Korchi, Tahar

Year

• 2015

Sponsor

• COPA Airlines

Date created

• 2015-05-29

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright