[PapaBear3625]

Ducks and Geese get sucked into jet engine intakes all the time when they get into the flight path of a jet airliner ... so there is no reason that a small drone positioned into the path of such an aircraft would not also be sucked into the engines ... or hit a control surface on a wing or hit the windshield ... regardless it is quite feasible.

And we're currently only talking about inert hobby drones.

Consider a drone carrying few pounds of nitroglycerin or acetone peroxide hitting a wing fuel tank or the cockpit.

[familyop]

"Consider a drone carrying few pounds of nitroglycerin or acetone peroxide hitting a wing fuel tank or the cockpit."

It would be like trying to throw a bomb by hand to hit a bullet in flight--not very likely. Threads like this one make me glad that evil people aren't often very dedicated to lifetimes of study or hard work in any single pursuit of skills or invention.

[ICCtheWay]

Or even one of those large fireworks likes the Boston Bomber Jihadies used.

[Seizethecarp]

“Consider a drone carrying few pounds of nitroglycerin or acetone peroxide hitting a wing fuel tank or the cockpit.”

Bird-strike crashes demonstrate that NO on board explosives are necessary when the relatively tiny mass of a bird as small as a kestrel, and certainly a larger goose gets amplified at take-off velocity generating sufficient KINETIC ENERGY to destroy jet turbine.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/kalitta-revises-rto-training-after-747s-disastrous-post-v1-abort-329530/

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950922-0