By Karamjit Kaur, Aviation Correspondent

BIRDS do not like Changi Airport. By design there are no fruit trees, no colourful flowers, no long grass, and those that arrive are scared off or shot down.

According to a Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore spokesman, while pilots do occasionally report flying into birds in the vicinity, they 'do not cause significant problems' at Changi Airport.

Unlike the incident involving a US Airways Airbus A-320 on Jan 15, when bird strikes caused a plane to make a dramatic landing on the Hudson River in New York, Singapore has never had a serious accident caused by birds.

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