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Old 01-15-2009 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by texaspilot76
Why didn't he turn back to the airport? Must have been a bad birdstrike to kill both engines. I heard that they shoot frozen turkeys at engines during certification and they still stay running. .
Ummm, no they don't. But there is an old joke about that in aero-engineering circles

They do ingestion tests on smaller birds, like chickens...thawed out.
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