Originally posted by SteveR
Observe closely. They look like birds but do not act like them. Birds do not move that fast, nor do they deliberately home in on a
fuselage,
A jet's intake is very powerful. You do not wanna stand on a runway when a jet fires up for take-off.
The bird did not "home in on" the engine. The engine sucked it in.
Steve, turn your window fan up to full blast and observe the suction. Now imagine the suction needed to lift a multi-ton fighter jet off the ground
and how far away from it you'd have to be to fight the flow.
The bird never had a prayer. Neither, apparantly, did the the engine.
There's video out there worthy of our consideration, but ye gotta let this one go, man.
Edit to add: I watched it again and I don't see a bird hit. There are few near-misses, but no hit. Maybe the problem was mechanical?
[edit on 11-5-2008 by Tuning Spork]