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Kazakhstan’s aviation authority has explained how airports detect and deter flocks during migration. Patrols, sound, visual devices and other measures are selected according to the birds and the situation. Autumn migration makes birds an important aviation safety concern. Responding to a Kazinform inquiry, Kazakhstan’s aviation authority described how airports work to prevent aircraft–bird collisions.
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Experts from the US Federal Aviation Administration have completed an assessment of Kazakhstan’s state aviation safety oversight system. The preliminary stage is complete, but Category 1 has not yet been granted. We explain what the IASA program examines, what happens next, and why this is an important but not final condition for direct flights to the United States.
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For thousands of years people looked at the sky and envied the most ordinary bird: king of the earth, and its prisoner too. Before the first aeroplane left the ground, hundreds jumped from towers on homemade wings and died. Having achieved flight, humanity did not settle down but at once wanted to go higher.
