Originally Posted by d'@ve:
“Oh it'll happen alright, it's just a matter of when. Drone shatters windscreen disabling both pilots; drone sucked into engine causing uncontained explosion and wing fuel tank fire; drone sucked into engine at the moment more power is required moments from touchdown with insufficent time to increase the other engine power to compensate; etc., etc.
Some idiot will do it, somewhere, some time. Not sure how we can stop it or catch the idiots though.”
As mentioned previously, there are twice as many birds in the UK as people, yet so few drones flown irrisponsibly. Aircraft are tested with frozen Turkeys which get fired into commercial aircraft windows under high velocity by compressed air, the same with the engines. The engine would be ruined, but that is why commercial aircraft are not single engine.
It has never happened, it is highly unlikely to ever happen due to the reasons mentioned above, even bird strikes are rare and much more dangerous if in flocks as there is the potential for multiple engines to be damaged.