What would you expect from the son of Marie Antoinette?
Easter bunny hops thru UA2325’s engine.
I wonder if the pilot will find a foot & make it into a keychain - He’s going to need some luck after the ribbing he’s going to get back at base; OTOH, it doesn’t seem too lucky for the last owner of it. 
@LSLGuy, weren’t you recently talking about something similar?
Could be worse. If reports are correct, this guy managed to ingest his own plane’s nosewheel:
That’s got to be one bad landing when you tear off a nose wheel and ingest it in an engine.
Or it was ready to fail anyhow and although the nose touchdown wasn’t great it wasn’t much out of the ordinary.
My former employer wrecked a DC9 that way. No injuries fortunately. An unrecognized history of minor hard landings on a very old jet had cracked one main gear leg. Which failed when the newbie copilot muffed a high crosswind landing. He hit harder than desired, but well within tolerable specs. The pre-damaged main gear promptly snapped at the pre-existing crack and they slid to a stop lopsided on the runway. Oops.
I’m much more concerned about the single engine go around. Big jet twins of whatever size fly fine on one engine. It really is more a distraction than a crisis. But you can convert a distraction into a crisis by triggering a single engine go-around. Those are rather dicier. They also scare the shit out of pax & cabin crew. Tres unstylish.
The three main ways to get there are 1) attempting the approach in an all-fired hurry before you’re ready and have completed all the administrivia, 2) flying like shit on final, 3) somebody on the ground does something stupid like have a fire truck or airport pickup truck pull onto the runway late.
Not much you can do about #3, except not hurry so much that they’re in a mad panic to get into their appointed place in time. But #1 & 2 are totally on the flight crew. Don’t do that.
Yep. Upthread:
It must have taken a wrong turn at ABQ.
Are you saying there were some Bugs in the system?
I think that particular lepus leapt just a hare too high. Shoulda looked before it lepussed.
Something about a left turn at Albuquerque…
That was a bit of Big News down this way Wednesday morning with all sort of folk going on X to cosplay as flight emergency experts.
Did you all know that a rabbit’s scream doesn’t echo?
It does, inside a cowling, but only for a hare of a second. It gets compressed in there.
You need really long ears to hear it.
Looking at the NTBS database on strikes, there were 3 OTHER rabbit purees noted.
rare to get a glimpse of the size of a 380.
Flew on it once - comfortable but prefer my Dreamliners.
And the 787 intimidated me when I was lifted up the side of it to a port coming home from Japan with a broken leg not quite working well.
I suspect none of the biggest airliners with make it into the Smithsonian.
One more comparison
I flew on one of Lufthansa’s A380s once. It was fun just for the novelty of flying on such a big plane, but honestly I thought their A330 was more comfortable in Economy Class. I’m sure their great if you’re in Business Class, though.
Displaying my ignorance, but what’s the American jet in the foreground?
737-800. Thats 99% likely to be at JFK.
There’s a smidgen of forced perspective there, but the difference in raw bulk is huge.
Another runway fire.
Gives new meaning to a “number two” engine.
Such fun. Sounds / looks like they had a problem during engine start.
Several ways to puddle a bunch of fuel in there, then when the fire finally does light off late, the excess fuel is ignited and blown out the back. Real spectacular fireball ensues and leads to a burning puddle on the ground. Not as hazardous as it looks, but still not a great situation.
Best of all, the engine fire detection system can’t “see” that, since it’s all happening either inside teh engine where fire belongs, our outside the airplane and on the ground where there are no sensors. Part of the reason to leave the tug and ground crew connected to the airplane until all engines are successfully started is so they can be our eyes on the outside.