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Glad you are with me on this one!
Andrew M
Pure theorising of course, but isn't there the possibility the foreign object (I understood it was an insect not a bird) actually lodged in the tube as the aircraft reached that speed?
Your post and sarcastic smiley tends to imply the failure MUST have happened at a lower speed?
With that sort of logic any future air accident investigation can happily rule out mechanical/instrument failure as a cause, since if everything was OK at engine startup there can't possibly have been any failures during the flight.