Originally Posted by DozyWannabe
True
False, DC-9 engines are not behind the wing, they are
above and behind it. That any civil turbofan engine needs access to clear, undisturbed air to work properly and therefore cannot be protected from any flying FOD is hard scientific fact that cannot be altered by surrealist, dadaist or any similar art movement. Perhaps if we use cubist perspective, then indeed they are shielded by wing or fuselage or whatever but while cubist paintings brought fame and money to certain Spaniard, no draftsman that has drawn cubist blueprints has ever landed a job anywhere.
Seemingly in the race to air most implausible theory in this thread someone has conveniently overlooked that I have already mentioned catastrophic failure of western built low bypass engine following ingestion of geese but then I don't expect folks with very chivalrous attitude towards reality would know what Yukla27 was or would look it up.
Interestingly, for all the fuss about birdies here
ASN lists only 56 events severe enough to be mentioned, most of them non-fatal, if we count only humans, that is.