Date:	Sunday 28 July 1968
Time:	10:43
Type:	Dassault Falcon 20C
Owner/operator:	Executive Jet Aviation
Registration:	N367EJ
MSN:	028
Year of manufacture:	1966
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	Cleveland-Burke Lakefront Airport, OH (BKL) -   United States of America
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Executive
Departure airport:	Cleveland-Burke Lakefront Airport, OH (BKL/KBKL)
Destination airport:	Portland International Jetport, ME (PWM/KPWM)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
On departure from Cleveland the airplane's engines ingested a large number of gulls. Both engines flamed out and the crew attempted to carry out a forced landing. The Falcon collided with a fence and crash-landed in Lake Erie. The crew members were rescued by a boat. A total of 315 birds were found dead. The no. 1 engine compressor unit was 20% filled with the remains of birds, the no. 2 compressor was 17% filled.

PROBABLE CAUSES:
powerplant - miscellaneous: bird ingestion
personnel - traffic control personnel: failure to advise of unsafe airport conditions
FACTOR:
personnel - airport supervisory personnel: failure to notify of unsafe cond/and or failure to mark obstruction

Fatalities and Destroyed Civil Aircraft Due To Bird Strikes 1912-2002 / John Thorpe (International Bird Strike Committee ISBC26/WP-SA1)
NTSB

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