Jet engine manufacturers run tests, one of which is throwing a chicken at high velocity into the engine. You can find videos[1][2] on YouTube; "bird ingestion t

Jet engine manufacturers run tests, one of which is throwing a chicken at high velocity into the engine. You can find videos[1][2] on YouTube; "bird ingestion test" is what these are called, it seems. (Also, my understanding is that they test with whole chickens, which I hope you're not very likely to run into with an aircraft.) I'm not an expert here, so I'm not sure how bad these really are in practice. Judging from the videos, a chicken looks like anything from not-a-problem (video 1) to something that's not going to crash the plane, but still would appear to be of concern, and perhaps a "okay, time to land then." (video 2). See also the hilariously named Wikipedia aritle, "Chicken gun"[3]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfXX7qppbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfXX7qppbc [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTb0QRIt0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTb0QRIt0c [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun