A United Airlines plane was forced into an emergency landing after it caught fire after a rabbit was reportedly sucked into its engine.
The flight in the US issued an alert following a “giant fireball” after the reportedly got stuck in the plane’s engine before take off.
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The plane was turned around after around 75 minutes in the air and landed safely. There were no reports of injuries.
Explains my lack of Easter eggs this year.
United Airlines killed the Easter Bunny. Very on-brand for them.
And how is the rabbit doing?
I like to think it landed gently in a cabbage field, only lightly singed, wondered what the Hell just happened and it continued on with it’s day doing rabbit stuff.
I do sometimes wonder if some of the weirder UFO encounters, like this, might have a similar explanation.
(Your link is a bit malformed)
That’s pretty interesting though, hilarity aside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_incident
I wonder if the police were right, and he had been (perhaps sexually) assaulted, but it was the 70s and men couldn’t quite talk about that, or something.
(Your link is a bit malformed)
Ah yes, the Lemmy UI goes a bit sideways when you try and post a new link into existing markup.
I wonder if the police were right, and he had been (perhaps sexually) assaulted, but it was the 70s and men couldn’t quite talk about that, or something.
Ufology is interesting, but because it may be more about us than aliens.
That could definitely be a reason (my grandfather was gay in a time when it just wasn’t possible to be open about it and it seriously impacted his life) although the damage to his trousers is unusual. I suspect the temporal lobe epilepsy explanation is right and he may have stumbled into a barbed wire fence or thorn bush.
I suspect the temporal lobe epilepsy explanation is right and he may have stumbled into a barbed wire fence or thorn bush.
Ah true, it’s interesting he could smell things that others couldn’t
Yeah, that is a key indicator of TLE.
In this case, “to shreds” is probably quite accurate.
I’d imagine it’s probably well done by now.
Why is no-one asking how
Midair collision after the rabbit took off from O’Hare airport.
Once those jet engines spool up they suck harder than your mother. Spook the rabbit, make it jump, schwoopbangbangbang
Never really considered how much air they suck in.
Seen videos of the exhaust blowing over cars and that but didn’t pay mind to the business end
Oh man, modern jet engines have 40-50:1 compression ratios. Insane amount of mass air-flow
Plane was on the ground, and the rabbit was just crossing the runway to get some tax-free perfume for the missus
Flying rabbit obviously.
Should I write this down as “FOD ingestion” or will we invent a new category called “Rabbitstrike”?
DUCKSTRIKE
Until the Rabbit Revolutionary Army claims this, I’ll be skeptical that a UA flight wasn’t downed because of neglectful maintenance
Eagles may soar, but
weaselsrabbits don’t get sucked into jet enginesShit. Gonna need a new quotation now.
Just a bad dream, your grace.
A passenger described the experience as “hare-y”.
So, a morbid thought occurs… a rabbit hanging around an airport… that could have been someone’s pet that got loose from its carrier, huh?
Sooo ein Feuerball junge!
