Originally Posted by ramboamt

Yes this is a good video of what happens when a foreign object is ingested into a jet engine. Did you noticed the, at the end of the video, sailor sitting to the left of the other sailors had only bandages and all of his appendages, the engine was "FOD" by his head set i.e. plastic and steel and some small rubber bits, and his body blocking the air flow into the inlet causing a compressor stall, the flames out the tail pipe. This goes to show that Plastic, Steel and Rubber can destroy an engine.