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Smithsonian Helping to ID Birds in Hudson Crash

January 26, 2009 | Posted in: News,Pilots,US Airways

This makes sense: the NTSB is examining the black boxes from US Airways Flight 1549 – the one where the plane crash landed in the Hudson earlier this month. And this makes sense, too: the sleuths at the Smithsonian are getting a feather found on one of the plane’s wings – so they can ID the birds believed to have been sucked into the engines.

And why not: the Smithsonian Institution (which is actually a group of 19 different museums) has a collection of 620,000 bird samples – including feathers. And they’ve been collecting them long before there were airplanes – contributors include Charles Darwin and Theodore Roosevelt.

And if the Smithsonian can’t ID the birds in question — via feather –museum officials say they have an avian DNA database that should do the trick.

Personal aside: if you ever get a chance to see the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, do not pass it up. Actually, don’t pass up a chance to see any of these museums.

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