"My experience with birdstrikes is limited to military aircraft where the pilot can eject, but in a majority of birdstrikes the plane is destroyed."
Catastrophic failure of the engine turbine could occur if the ingested birds are large enough. The odds of both engines failing through bird ingestion? Could happen.
yeah and then the remnant of the birds are spewed out with such force that they knock the tail off before the engine has time to fall.
Lucy's got some "splainin to do"