By Utibe Inyang
The first known fatal airplane crash involving a bird took place in 1912. The plane, a Wright Model EX, was flown by Calbraith Perry Rodgers. While testing the new engines, he ran into a flock of sea gulls, which entangled in the plane’s control cables. The plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, and Rodgers became the first fatality in aviation history as a result of a bird strike.
