A surprise beehive on an airplane turbine turns into a lesson on honeybee swarms, airport safety, and why the bees survived.

A silhouette of a plane flying through a flock of birds against an orange sky at sunset. Two years after he helped invent the airplane, Orville Wright became the first person to hit an animal with a ...

Aside from birds, hundreds of other types of animals are struck annually, though these incidents rarely cause human injury or death.

WASHINGTON -- Airplane collisions with birds or other animals have destroyed 28 aircraft since 2000, with New York's Kennedy airport and Sacramento International reporting the most incidents with ...

Stacker examined which animals were most often involved in aircraft strikes over the past three years using data from the Federal Aviation Administration. - BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP // Getty Images ...