Interior Cites ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ to Drop Bird Proposal (1)

Eleven years after the “Miracle on the Hudson,” the Trump administration is using the ditching of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River after a bird strike as evidence that protections for migratory birds should be dropped.

Environmental groups are criticizing the administration for using the 2009 aviation accident to justify rolling back protections for migratory birds when their populations are declining.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cited the ditched flight, which lost power after Canada geese struck both engines, as part of its draft environmental review published June 5 for a proposed rule re-interpreting the Migratory Bird ...