DOT Orders Bird Data Uncensored

U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaFrance has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make its entire bird strike database available to the public as ofApril 24. Portions of the database have been publicly available since the information was first collected in 1990, but the public will now be able to access all of the database's fields.

The FAA is also withdrawing a proposal to protect the data, after a 30-day comment period closed earlier this week.”The FAA has determined that it can release the data without jeopardizing aviation safety.” The U.S. aviation agency said in a written statement. The FAA has redacted a very small amount of data in the database containing privacy information, such as personal phone numbers.