Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
An f-14 Tomcat is not an airliner engine, and not a fan jet. Airliners are rated to injest 5 KG birds and continue running. The fan helps as it tends to send the bird parts out away from the compressor inlet. Yes a missing blade can cause a large amount of damage, but it usually takes something larger than that. That is not saying it would never happen, only unlikely.
A jet engine is just that, a jet engine. They have blades in the front, which narrow down to the compressor stage. There is where the problem occurs. The blades already fractured by a foreign object other than AIR, chicken or what not , will not go into the compression state. The fractured blades with the other foreign object then enter the compression stage, when that takes place, the engine will self disstruct, implode within itself creating an engine failure. Jet fighter, bomber, Airliner, jets engines operate on the same principal, air in air out. Any object sucked into those fan blades with create havoc in that engine.