I work in the jet engine overhaul and repair industry and an engine ingesting any FOD can cause many millions of $$$$ damage and stop an engine cold. It's not very clear in the news reports if the model in question (I haven't seen the video) is e-powered or glow, but either source of power is made of metal. Let's say the model was sucked in and caused a piece of the front fan to liberate. That piece would more than likely go through the compressers, which in turn damages more parts which break and as they go through the engine causing greater and greater damage as it passes through the gas path. You wouldn't believe the damage an object the size of a penny can do. As far as I'm concerned, this so-called "modeler" has done a lot of unreversable damage to the R/C industry on the whole. Whatever punishment he gets won't be enough.

FB