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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    39 days 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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      37 days 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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        27 days ago

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