Amritsar: Delay of Dubai-bound flight of Air India Express has once again brought to fore increased chances of disruption of flights at Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport due to bird hits and stray animals.
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has given a contract to chase away birds and animals to a private concern. Long standing crop in the vicinity of the airport offers plenty of food for birds and stray animals.
The apparatus to shoo away birds and animals at the airport comprises a six-shot launcher device imported from Germany, a laser gun-cum-torch brought from Canada and a LPG cylinder-fired 10 zone guns procured from the Netherlands.
When fired, the six-shot launcher blasts at a certain height in the sky, without leaving any residue on the ground beneath. The laser gun-cum-torch has a range of 2 km and it scares away nocturnal birds. The zone guns have been placed at a distance of 200 feet from each other along the runway and gas from the cylinder causes a loud explosion to keep the birds away from the airport complex in general and operational area in particular. It is a non-lethal system to scare birds away from the airport complex.
02/01/16 Neeraj Bagga/Tribune
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The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has given a contract to chase away birds and animals to a private concern. Long standing crop in the vicinity of the airport offers plenty of food for birds and stray animals.
The apparatus to shoo away birds and animals at the airport comprises a six-shot launcher device imported from Germany, a laser gun-cum-torch brought from Canada and a LPG cylinder-fired 10 zone guns procured from the Netherlands.
When fired, the six-shot launcher blasts at a certain height in the sky, without leaving any residue on the ground beneath. The laser gun-cum-torch has a range of 2 km and it scares away nocturnal birds. The zone guns have been placed at a distance of 200 feet from each other along the runway and gas from the cylinder causes a loud explosion to keep the birds away from the airport complex in general and operational area in particular. It is a non-lethal system to scare birds away from the airport complex.
02/01/16 Neeraj Bagga/Tribune
