One little Bunny Rabbit could disable an entire, multi ton aircraft? I would have thought our planes were slightly more durable than that! What? Did he stand up on his fuzzy hind legs and refuse to give up his Den entry?
Lil bunny probably got sucked up off the ground in to one of those really important engines. Even if it wasn't badly damaged, they would turn around if it wasn't operating properly.
Turbine aircraft engines are highly complex and sensitive machines.
At the RPM they are turning, once something is ingested (and it could be something a lot smaller than a rabbit) it can cause a domino kind of effect.
If the strike breaks a fan blade at the front, it is also going to go through the engine and the whole motor begins to self destruct.
Foreign object debris is and always hss been a constant thorn in the side of aviation.
Just for background, my 37 year career was in aviation maintenance.
No kidding. On the second Die Hard movie, a big black guy went into a jet engine and it didn't miss a beat.
into an engine-—
WELL BLENDED