See those black bits scattered around this Boeing? It’s just part of a massive flock of starlings hitting its fuselage and engine as it was taking off at 200mph. About two hundred birds were sucked into the turbine.
The photographer, Juergen Kienast, said the sound of the engine as it sucked the birds was defeaning:
The pitch of the engine said it all. It was like sticking a bit of metal pipe into a blender.
