Is April a safe or not a safe month to fly? Migratory birds-airplane collisions, high risk at airports.

The Romanian airports are confronted with risky circumstances due to the presence of the birds of passage that arrived in the area for this part of the year. The collisions between aircrafts and birds are something usual but sometimes with catastrophic outcome. Such an event took place recently at Iasi where a TAROM plane was cracked by the birds before landing. In January a similar accident involved an US Airways airliner which crash landed in the Hudson River in New York after the two engines choked after sucking birds during the take off procedure from La Guardia airport.
The highest probability the airplanes might collide with birds happen at low altitude before landing or after take off. In those situations the aircrafts are either in a steep climb or in a slow glide with engines power reduced and less can be done to execute an avoidance maneuver.
At Baneasa airport there were installed propane guns close to runway shooting every minute in order to scary away the flying creatures but despite this action they come back to their nests made in the surroundings.
To my friends who went to Romania to enjoy the Easter holiday, I wish them good luck on the way back to NL, watch the loving birds and take care that "planes and the birds are not a good mix” (even if they have somehow the same purpose)