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by topspin 1941 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3XDkIKT0E

The compressor blades hardly seem to notice. They are shot out of the rear of the engine as a pink mist.

Birds do stop engines. You just need to fly through enough them. Flight 1549 lost both engines while turning Canadian geese into deli slices.

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Obligatory "Canada Geese", not "Canadian Geese" comment.

I'm curious: do we know how many geese it takes to take out an engine?