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.

The plane was turned around after around 75 minutes in the air and landed safely. There were no reports of injuries.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Plane was on the ground, and the rabbit was just crossing the runway to get some tax-free perfume for the missus

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Once those jet engines spool up they suck harder than your mother. Spook the rabbit, make it jump, schwoopbangbangbang

      • Tomtits
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        32 months ago

        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

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          Oh man, modern jet engines have 40-50:1 compression ratios. Insane amount of mass air-flow