“Mini copters hitting a 747 ain’t going to bring it down.”
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate real-world military related experience.
Your examples did not involve intentional ingestion of a drone by a high-bypass turbofan...a very delicate machine.
As posted up-thread, here, again is the link to the crash of a 747 freighter which was done in by a tiny kestrel bird:
“The aircraft experienced a stall in its inboard right-hand Pratt & Whitney JT9D engine after it ingested a kestrel during the take-off roll on 25 May last year.”
A single Canada Goose can take out a jet engine as seen with Captain Sully’s crash in the Hudson and with the AWACS Yukla-27 crash, and they weigh less and have softer parts than available cheap multi-copters.
Here is the accident report on the AWACS Yukla-27, which inspired my blog (please check the blog out when you get home!):
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950922-0
You do know that today's high bypass engines are made to contain a major failure of the engine? I seriously doubt a little quadrotor toy would destroy a 747's engine that would cause the plane to crash. It may need to be replaced or repaired but I'm betting it'll still have enough thrust to land safely and if you think you can hit all four engines, I don't think so.
You'd be better of doing what Sean Connery did in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where he made a bunch of birds take off into the path of a German plane.
Sooo, what you're saying is, the looselimbs fired a kestrel? I think Jeff Foxworthy built a comedy routine around that one...