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Passenger plane forced into emergency landing after 'rabbit sucked into engine' (www.standard.co.uk)
submitted 11 months ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk
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A United Airlines plane was forced into an emergency landing after it caught fire after a rabbit was reportedly sucked into its engine.

The flight in the US issued an alert following a “giant fireball” after the reportedly got stuck in the plane’s engine before take off.

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The plane was turned around after around 75 minutes in the air and landed safely. There were no reports of injuries.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why is no-one asking how

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Midair collision after the rabbit took off from O'Hare airport.

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Once those jet engines spool up they suck harder than your mother. Spook the rabbit, make it jump, schwoopbangbangbang

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never really considered how much air they suck in.

Seen videos of the exhaust blowing over cars and that but didn't pay mind to the business end

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

Oh man, modern jet engines have 40-50:1 compression ratios. Insane amount of mass air-flow

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

Until the Rabbit Revolutionary Army claims this, I'll be skeptical that a UA flight wasn't downed because of neglectful maintenance

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

So, a morbid thought occurs... a rabbit hanging around an airport... that could have been someone's pet that got loose from its carrier, huh?

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Should I write this down as “FOD ingestion” or will we invent a new category called “Rabbitstrike”?

[–] Jode@midwest.social 0 points 11 months ago

DUCKSTRIKE

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Explains my lack of Easter eggs this year.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

United Airlines killed the Easter Bunny. Very on-brand for them.