Recurring Bird Strikes: AAI To Set Up Garbage Processing Unit
With a total of eight bird strike cases reported this year at the Trivandrum International Airport till September, officials have started thinking about ways to curb this menace. The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has decided to set up a scientific garbage processing unit to tackle the issue of waste disposal in the airport vicinity.
As many as nine, seventeen and eleven bird strike cases were reported at the airport in 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Bird strikes are a major issue for all airports as it may lead to severe accidents.
The accumulation of waste at the airport vicinity, especially in the Chakkai-All Saints’ College Junction stretch, has been found as the reason for the rise in number of bird strikes at the airport.
In one of the major incidents this year, a Muscat bound flight of Oman Air was delayed for more than eighteen hours at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport in May following a bird strike on arrival at the Trivandrum International Airport, which resulted in damage to the blades of the engine.
The garbage processing unit will be set up as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of airport, which will be managed by the city corporation.
“We have requested the authorities for a 20-cent-plot to set up the garbage processing unit,” said and official at the international airport.
“After construction, we will hand over the unit to the corporation for maintenance,” he added.
A modern fish market, equipped with a biogas plant worth Rs 45 lakh at Perunnelli in Muttathara, was constructed under the CSR scheme of the airport in 2013, after the unscientific waste disposal at the old open fish market had led to an increase in bird strike cases at the airport.
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