[TheForge] What the hell?

[Andrew Vida]

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Sure, one bird, new engine with no fatigue. The AWACS 
> in 95 sucked numerous birds into each engine all it 
> really needs to do is shut them down on takeoff to down 
> the plane.

	Called a "power off stall" - the worst thing that can happen to you 
when flying, short of the wings falling off.
> 
> What happened yesterday is still speculation, they 
> haven't even recovered the engines as yet. Passenger 
> sitting on the left side saw a fireball and pieces.

	Must have ingested something - the fact that both engines went strongly 
suggests this.  The statistical likelihood of two engines going at the 
exact same time from unrelated causes must be vanishingly small.