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Passengers stand on the wings of a US Airways plane after it landed in the Hudson River in New York after a flock of birds struck the engines

Meet a forensic ornithologist, who identifies what’s left after avians and airplanes collide

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Carla Dove says around 13,000 bird strikes are reported to civil aviation, and another 4,000 to 5,000 from the military, every year. Her job is to identify the species.

Nikolai Pozharuk, a retired lawyer who helped with the search, says that when weeks passed without any sign of the plane, people began to look for other explanations.

When a Russian plane vanished without a trace, conspiracy theories filled the void

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