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    Video: Bird vs. F/A-18

    A demonstration of why birds and jet engines don't get along.

    http://www.allfunnyclips.com/videos.html?id=31
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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    Yeah that sucks. Looks like they handled it well. Gained some altitude and had time to assess before they ejected.
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    That almost looks like me trying to play a military flight sim....always hearing warnings and flying towards the ground. Cool vid, though.

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    It's kinda amusing that the warning voice has a British accent.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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    Seems like it was a training flight of some kind, no?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil D.
    Seems like it was a training flight of some kind, no?
    Definitely a combat situation, because that was the new weapon that the Taliban use to attack American planes. The heat-seeking pigeon.

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    that's hilarious, kind of ironic too...
    it is mathematically impossible for either hummingbirds, or helicopters to fly. fortunately, neither are aware of this.

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    but if it was an FA-18 which has two engines couldn't they still have landed on one engine instead of wasting what? . . .$100MIL
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    Quote Originally Posted by K9DEP
    but if it was an FA-18 which has two engines couldn't they still have landed on one engine instead of wasting what? . . .$100MIL
    The caption on that site could be wrong being that it's not an aviation-centric site. It very well might have been another type.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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