Unfortunately low-altitude overflights is not enough to make penguins crash.

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@@ -473,6 +473,24 @@ paper reports, "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
 colony and overfly it.  Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins
 fall over gently onto their backs.
 		-- Audobon Society Magazine
+
+2001-02-02, from http://new.bbc.co.uk:
+
+For five weeks, a team from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
+monitored 1,000 king penguins on the island of South Georgia as
+Lynx helicopters passed overhead.
+
+"Not one king penguin fell over when the helicopters came over,"
+said team leader Dr Richard Stone.
+
+"As the aircraft approached, the birds went quiet and stopped
+calling to each other, and adolescent birds that were not associated
+with nests began walking away from the noise. Pure animal instinct,
+really."
+
+The conclusion, said Dr Stone, is that flights over 305 metres
+(1,000 feet) caused "only minor and transitory ecological effects"
+on king penguins.
 %
 	A musician of more ambition than talent composed an elegy at
 the death of composer Edward MacDowell.  She played the elegy for the
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@@ -7168,6 +7168,24 @@ paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
 colony and overfly it.  Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins
 fall over gently onto their backs.
 		-- Audobon Society Magazine
+
+2001-02-02, from http://new.bbc.co.uk:
+
+For five weeks, a team from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
+monitored 1,000 king penguins on the island of South Georgia as
+Lynx helicopters passed overhead.
+
+"Not one king penguin fell over when the helicopters came over,"
+said team leader Dr Richard Stone.
+
+"As the aircraft approached, the birds went quiet and stopped
+calling to each other, and adolescent birds that were not associated
+with nests began walking away from the noise. Pure animal instinct,
+really."
+
+The conclusion, said Dr Stone, is that flights over 305 metres
+(1,000 feet) caused "only minor and transitory ecological effects"
+on king penguins.
 %
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 Though smaller than the pachyderm.