People don't blame the birds,
it is NOT their fault.
Think in their position,
the birds are not educated by anyone about the exsistence of airplane and actually "we" human are the one at fault. We created something(airplane) to distrupt their world.

Read the news through the links provided.

Some Links:
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=921125
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_327702.html

Anyway, it is a happy ending. All 155 people aboard the plane were rescued.