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Nearly two-thirds of a small group of agricultural pilots involved in wire strike accidents were aware of the wires before their aircraft struck them, according to a focus group study by researchers from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Civil Aerospace Medical Institute and the Cherokee Nation.1