Originally Posted by Taildragger67
In any case, it's not the actual birdstrike, it's the potential double flame-out....
Not necessarily. A birdstrike in the cockpit can kill.
I know about a DC-3 that collected a gull through the right-hand windscreen. The only reason the FO survived was that he bent down or leaned over for some unrelated reason, litterally a couple of seconds before the impact. He was showered with glass and remains of the bird that hit the panel just behind him.
The earlier set of photos had a helicopter with a smashed windscreen. There it would seem the pilot survived only because he was wearing a bonedome, with the visor down....