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Old Mar 3, 2019, 4:18 pm
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Originally Posted by defrosted
Don't play chicken with a jet.
A single chicken shouldn't bring down an commercial aircraft, even if the bird is frozen. The standard is that jet engines are supposed to be able to injest birds the size of a turkey without much damage. With Sully's famous flight, the problem is that it was a whole big flock of birds.
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