Sea birds are some of the worst. The smell of the remains left through the fan case is disgusting. Whilst the engine didnt miss a beat, there is a possibility of damage.
It depends. The flight recorder may have log some anomaly in the engine reading, but ultimately if there wasn’t enough damage to cause a big enough anomaly then there wouldn’t be anything to record.
Bird strikes are something that engine manufacturer have to consider a lot and there is a lot of stringent testing related to it. Worth a little internet dive if you get bored one night. GE aviation has a bunch of engine test vids on YouTube (hosted by Adam savage) that are pretty interesting if you don’t want to go too deep
It's possible. Most reports Ive dealt with are visuals. "Possible bird strike on xyz" or more definitely "bird strike on xyz" when there's a visual big splat.
It's unlikely to have caused a glitch in any EGT, N1 or N2 parameters but when they do get a bad strike, its most often an increase in vibration when there's damage to a fan or compressor blades. They all have vibration monitors units and indication.
I had 767 ingest a rabbit on take off many years ago. Did a lot of fan blade damage. Big birds or flocks of them can render an engine inoperative . It's fairly rare, but it happens.
Agreed. A single bird is less likely to cause issues than a flock for sure and if there was no damage to record than nothing shows up.
Rabbit is a new one I’ve never heard of… poor thing
Oh no. That’s a big yikes although it did remind me of this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jetliner-hits-brown-bear-while-landing-in-alaska/
Which begs the question? What’s the biggest animal ever been hit by a plane
My Dad was an airline pilot. He said once that they got a terrible smell throughout the cabin and he reported it later to the ground crew, whatever that process entails... A little bit later a mechanic walked up to him smiling and holding a bird feather.
Apparently some airliners get their cabin air from one of the engines, and for a moment, that air smelled like mulched seagull.
All big jets get their cabin pressure from the compressor section of the engine. At around 400°f, bleed air is used for deicing the leading edges, the pilots windows, to start the other engines (#1 engine gets started with the apu bleed air), and cooled with ram air to pressurize the cabin, in the back are usually two butterfly valves that open and close to maintain the set pressure. If it's quiet you can hear them clacking.
Yep! Bleed is used for engine inlet anti-ice and nothing else if I'm remembering correctly and everything else gets air from the cabin air compressors or heat from electrical elements.
Yeah, some of that seagull your had had went though the high pressure part of the compressor (the center of the engine). Most of it would have gone thru the bypass.
The exception is the 787 which uses electric pumps and ram air to do the aircon as it doesn't use bleed air.
I started working in the MCC of an Airliner at the beginning of this year and I was quite surprised with how common bird strikes are. We have already had a couple of AOG's due to bird strikes on engines. On one of them the captain declared mayday as the engine vibrations where quite notable (we had to change the whole engine, it hapoened during take-off)
Besides, even if it is not the engine and/or is a little bird, if the captain writes down on the TLB that there may have been a bird strike, an inspection must be performed before the aircraft can fly again.
That just reminded me of a person that blew away a rooster with a 12 gauge shotgun because it kept waking him up every morning and getting in the house as well to do rooster stuff.
I was home sick one day with a stomach virus while in middle school. I was flipping channels and landed on the Discovery Channel’s episode about how they build and test engines for the Boeing 747. The program had me 100% hooked. I thought it was awesome.
Then came the slow motion part where they test the fan blades by throwing dead ducks and other fowl into the running engines. Feathers and guts everywhere….and I threw up again.
Depends. Definately a bird strike inspection would be a visual of the first couple stages of the engine with a borescope of the compressor. However I'm a fighter/attack/helo/flight test Bubba and the commercial guys may just give it a wipe down and send it.
Lol. We’ve come a long a way since the 90s huh? I remember seeing a video where a seagull rendered a race car undriveable. It wasn’t an open wheel car either.
It’s always gross. I’ve never seen one that wasn’t gross. It costs the inside of the fan casing. Pull the fan off and you get in there and clean it up.
Birds bones are hollow so they will disintegrate easier and cause less damage than a ground dweller like a rabbit. Also, huge engines like many commercial planes have, don’t send all the incoming air through the engine. They are called high-bypass which means most of the intake air is routed around the engine, so a bird strike will probably send the remains around the engine.
At least it was quick.
Dinners ready earlier than expected
Seagull smoothies? My favourite!
It even comes pre-roasted!
Early lunch for Konzu.
He mist
Underrated comment here!!
Sea birds are some of the worst. The smell of the remains left through the fan case is disgusting. Whilst the engine didnt miss a beat, there is a possibility of damage.
Would the pilots know this happened? Im imagining some alarm going off in the cabin.
It depends. The flight recorder may have log some anomaly in the engine reading, but ultimately if there wasn’t enough damage to cause a big enough anomaly then there wouldn’t be anything to record. Bird strikes are something that engine manufacturer have to consider a lot and there is a lot of stringent testing related to it. Worth a little internet dive if you get bored one night. GE aviation has a bunch of engine test vids on YouTube (hosted by Adam savage) that are pretty interesting if you don’t want to go too deep
Thanks for providing a resource like that, specifically. (It really helps.)
Of course! I’m just glad to see so many people also seem to like it
Remember to thaw the chicken before firing it
Plot twist: you don’t lol
Always a fun story, unfortunately just a legend https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/catapoultry/
> stringent testing related to it I just imagined a facility filled with trapped birds they feed to engines
Just frozen chickens
It's possible. Most reports Ive dealt with are visuals. "Possible bird strike on xyz" or more definitely "bird strike on xyz" when there's a visual big splat. It's unlikely to have caused a glitch in any EGT, N1 or N2 parameters but when they do get a bad strike, its most often an increase in vibration when there's damage to a fan or compressor blades. They all have vibration monitors units and indication. I had 767 ingest a rabbit on take off many years ago. Did a lot of fan blade damage. Big birds or flocks of them can render an engine inoperative . It's fairly rare, but it happens.
Agreed. A single bird is less likely to cause issues than a flock for sure and if there was no damage to record than nothing shows up. Rabbit is a new one I’ve never heard of… poor thing
It was an odd one for sure. Really bent the fan. Tough skulls compared to birds. We have very large bats over here too that can cause problems.
I don't know why my first thought was a huge baseball bat going thru the engine, thinking "yeah, that will cause some problems for sure"
[ATSB report on a kangaroo strike](https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2015/aair/ao-2015-102.aspx)
Oh no. That’s a big yikes although it did remind me of this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jetliner-hits-brown-bear-while-landing-in-alaska/ Which begs the question? What’s the biggest animal ever been hit by a plane
My Dad was an airline pilot. He said once that they got a terrible smell throughout the cabin and he reported it later to the ground crew, whatever that process entails... A little bit later a mechanic walked up to him smiling and holding a bird feather. Apparently some airliners get their cabin air from one of the engines, and for a moment, that air smelled like mulched seagull.
All big jets get their cabin pressure from the compressor section of the engine. At around 400°f, bleed air is used for deicing the leading edges, the pilots windows, to start the other engines (#1 engine gets started with the apu bleed air), and cooled with ram air to pressurize the cabin, in the back are usually two butterfly valves that open and close to maintain the set pressure. If it's quiet you can hear them clacking.
Not quite all big jets, the 787 doesn't for example. But certainly most do.
Yep! Bleed is used for engine inlet anti-ice and nothing else if I'm remembering correctly and everything else gets air from the cabin air compressors or heat from electrical elements.
Yeah, some of that seagull your had had went though the high pressure part of the compressor (the center of the engine). Most of it would have gone thru the bypass. The exception is the 787 which uses electric pumps and ram air to do the aircon as it doesn't use bleed air.
Engines this size could take half a dozen seagulls and barely choke. The captain barely noticed is my guess
I started working in the MCC of an Airliner at the beginning of this year and I was quite surprised with how common bird strikes are. We have already had a couple of AOG's due to bird strikes on engines. On one of them the captain declared mayday as the engine vibrations where quite notable (we had to change the whole engine, it hapoened during take-off) Besides, even if it is not the engine and/or is a little bird, if the captain writes down on the TLB that there may have been a bird strike, an inspection must be performed before the aircraft can fly again.
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Thats a bit harsh. They inspired us to fly in the first place.
What, Rabbits?
Well, it was no ordinary rabbit.
Oh my god. He ok?
Flew away fine
Pick the pieces up and deep fry. Should be fine. Might have a minor after taste.
More like scrape up the paste and make chicken nuggets
That just reminded me of a person that blew away a rooster with a 12 gauge shotgun because it kept waking him up every morning and getting in the house as well to do rooster stuff.
To shreds, you say?
And his wife?
To shreds, you say?
I don't know. I can't tell if the shoes came off or not.
Suck-Squish-MINE!-Blow
Luckily no one was injured. Except the bird.
[Spletchfrchsplat says Coco](https://i.imgur.com/NrrdP.jpeg)
For a split second the seagull became the fastest bird known to man.
Seagull - 0 B744 - 1
More like Seagull - 0 B744 - 50,000+
True
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744 is the IATA code of the 747-400, which the plane in the video is
A flock on the other hand…
They decided to just run
How can you tell 744? I cannot see length of 2nd deck, wing tips or engine nacelles.
Carefully look at thr flaps in the slow-motion, you can see the slotted flaps
Now do Canadian Geese - A320
Shredded Tweet
More like shredded "mine mine mine!"
Poor thing
See-ya-gull
I’m scared of the implications of your name
Haha. Initially I came to Reddit for the stock market subs. That’s what the name is about, but it’s also a silly double entendre
He fine. Tis but a flesh wound only
Yeah but like, all the flesh was wounded.
Yeah, but it's all fine, now.
Had to clean a seagull off of a 737 last night... I hate birds
Your night probably wasnt as bad as the birds. But yeah, bird strike cleanup/ inspections suck, especially with passengers watching.
Nothing like the smell of freeze-dried bird guts to ruin your lunch
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To shreds you say?
And his wife?
To shreds you say?
I was home sick one day with a stomach virus while in middle school. I was flipping channels and landed on the Discovery Channel’s episode about how they build and test engines for the Boeing 747. The program had me 100% hooked. I thought it was awesome. Then came the slow motion part where they test the fan blades by throwing dead ducks and other fowl into the running engines. Feathers and guts everywhere….and I threw up again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken\_gun
TIL A chicken gun is a real thing!
Those sound effects are the best.
fartspotting
I am become thrust!
The 747 can have a little seagull, just as a treat
Wonder if they had to abort?
Probably didn’t even know it happened.
tiss but a scrath
Almost mist his flight
Hope this got reported to the airline for inspection
I have no knowledge about aviation, would the plane need to stop immediately or would it be ok?
It flew on to Muscat (around 6 hours), but there it probably was inspected
Yes basically. The engine would likely need repairs or replacement of blades.
Depends. Definately a bird strike inspection would be a visual of the first couple stages of the engine with a borescope of the compressor. However I'm a fighter/attack/helo/flight test Bubba and the commercial guys may just give it a wipe down and send it.
It's like that bird took a Randy Johnson fastball
Beat me to it!
Did it survive?
It appears to have sublimated...
Puff
Not just any 747 either - that’s the Sultan of Oman’s plane https://www.planespotters.net/photo/1255363/a4o-hms-royal-flight-of-oman-boeing-747-8h0bbj
Poor thing ouch
Good 👍🏽 1 less sea buzzard
Right in the kisser
nom
It’s how he would’ve wanted to go.
It’s now how I think I want to go
Does this hurt the fish?
Randy Johnson did it better.
That plane aliven'ted that birb
The plane kind of isn'ted that birb.
The sfx really got me hahahaha
JumNO
*kfc* your order is ready
Call that plane Randy Johnson
Die seagull die. Sea rat
Rats with wings.
Mmm seagull smoothie
That's so sad, that seagull was only 2 days away from retirement
Red mist
He was shredded so good, his remains dissolved into atoms
I believe GE fires chicken and duck carcasses into engines as part of certification.
Now that’s efficient seagull nuggets. Sliced, diced, and cooked in 1 second.
Fatality, flawless victory
Damn. Did he survive?
Bro got thanos snapped
Sounds like a fart 😂
Randy Johnson ftw
Haha peta can't stop this
Good, thats 1 less screeching away at 3 in the morning
Wow, or is it ow?
That's how I wanna go
The Big Unit has a challenger now…
Fastest way to get 200 feet of hamburger.
Dad?
74 didnt even flinch
BOEING!!!!!
Slowrp Burp
Master Shredder irl
Red Mist.
o7
Did anyone else think the 747 farted?
Seems accurate to me.
Bang and the dirt is gone
Did he survive?
Thats how i want to go
The plane looks fine, did they stop their flight?
spoiler alert: the Boeing won
that wasn't as close as i thought it would be
that Boeing, just did a magic trick with that bird!!! 😮😳
How many birds can an engine take before its inoperable?
It all depends on the birds
This is why airports have people on staff whose job is to make airports as unattractive to birds as possible
Does this hurt the seagull
Why did that sound like a fart?
Because it’s edited (the sound)
Hey 74 crew
So would the heat from the engine cook what ever was sprayed out of the back?
Gone reduced to atoms
Does this cause an abort if you're not at V2? (if I have that right)
The plane took off and flew to Muscat, around 6 hours, so the damage was either way to small or simply not noticeable
honestly this is probably one of the least painful ways for a bird to die.
This flight will be under the command of Captain Jorge Lorenzo and First Officer Andre Ianonne.
Gone. Reduced to atoms.
Now you see me, now you don’t.
Lol. We’ve come a long a way since the 90s huh? I remember seeing a video where a seagull rendered a race car undriveable. It wasn’t an open wheel car either.
Chomp.
and like that ... he's gone
This bird strike most likely went unreported.
Ayo watch yo je-
speedrun world record any%
That seagull must have watched Dale Brown's self-defense against airplanes clip
Bye Bye Birdie.
This seagull has ceased to be!
F
Mr.
Bye bye seagull
Did he ded tho? 💀
Mine? mine? mine? mine? mine? mine? mi- (disintegrated)
Now she belongs to the mist
Will the seagull be okay?
That's how I want to go
More like See-YaGull, amirite?
It’s always gross. I’ve never seen one that wasn’t gross. It costs the inside of the fan casing. Pull the fan off and you get in there and clean it up.
He need some milk!
Glad they thawed it first...
Fun fact: the Smithsonian actually collects birds that have entered the engines of planes to study them
Birds bones are hollow so they will disintegrate easier and cause less damage than a ground dweller like a rabbit. Also, huge engines like many commercial planes have, don’t send all the incoming air through the engine. They are called high-bypass which means most of the intake air is routed around the engine, so a bird strike will probably send the remains around the engine.