United Bird Strike and Engine Fire
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From that report:
Would a price tag of a billion dollars on that be reasonable? That's assuming they all landed safely, too. Cost of loss of flight, plus aircraft out of service while the engine is fixed, plus cost of fixing/replacing the engine must add up to a fair bit. It's almost one incident a day.
In the last five years alone, between O’Hare and Midway airports, the FAA reports nearly 1,500 bird strikes.
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Many moons ago I had a multiple strike in an absolute max weight Victor tanker on rotate during a dawn take off at Marham. All four Saphires were damaged. Fortunately in those days the straight through engines were more tolerant of misuse and I was able to get it back in one piece. Apparently well over 100 gulls (which had reroosted on the warm concrete following bird scaring and a previous take off) were killed and the braking action was degraded by bird corpses. We got the job done though in a spare aircraft and did the paperwork when we got back a day or so later.