Passenger plane forced into emergency landing after 'rabbit sucked into engine' (www.standard.co.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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[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

Why is no-one asking how

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

Plane was on the ground, and the rabbit was just crossing the runway to get some tax-free perfume for the missus

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

Flying rabbit obviously.

[-] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

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 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

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