NYC Airport Geese Getting Sent to Pennsylvania Food Banks CheapOair Staff June 20, 2011 general Blades Getting Inspected After a Bird Got Sucked in In an effort to turn a problem into a solution, New York City will be gathering up all the geese that surround its airports and ship them to Pennsylvania food banks to become supper. It was the geese that caused the US Airways plane to land in the Hudson River in January of 2009, getting stuck in the engine. According to the USA Today report, over 1,600 geese were gassed then simply added to the landfills last year.