Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to have discovered a way to avoid a repeat of the US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River last January. The plane crashed/made a safe landing in the Hudson river after which lost all thrust after a collision with a flock of geese shortly after takeoff.

Obviously the simplest way to prevent another almost-catastrophe would be to kill all the geese. Officials will launch a gas attack on as many as 2.000 Canadian geese. After the geese are caught they will be killed on an off-site location using CO2 gas.

I’m pretty sure both WWF International and PETA have been looking forward to this announcement.

Via NYT.