Jet engine ingestion
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A jet engine ingestion occurs when an object is sucked into a running jet engine, sometimes causing engine failure. Birds or other flying animals are ingested into aircraft jet engines thousands of times per year, and there have been incidents of humans being accidentally or even suicidally ingested into jet engines. Other objects can also be ingested and cause engine damage or failure, such as the runway debris that led to the catastrophic crash of the Concorde airliner operating Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.
