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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Two years after he helped invent the airplane, Orville Wright became the first person to hit an animal with a plane when he struck a bird over an Ohio cornfield in 1905. Animal strikes by aircraft ...