Boeing 747 Bird-Strike 

To clear up a bit what you see (and hear) in this video: This is a Boeing 747-400 operated by the Royal Flight of Oman, this is a governmental aircraft and not a regular passenger aircraft. The aircraft hit a bird during takeoff roll at around 100kts (115 mph/185 km/h). The reason why the aircraft looks so slow in the video is because this is filmed on a focal length of 1360mm which squeezes the depth of a video by a significant amount. The bird hit the engine cowling (the silver ring) and seperated into pieces there. Some parts went through the engine, visible by the black cloud behind the engine. This is no smoke, just shredded bird as the bird went through the bypass part of the engine, this is a part of the engine where no combustion takes place. The big fan in front of the engine sucks in a lot of air and the major part of it goes around the core directly to the engine exhaust. Only if the bird goes through that core you will be able to see fire and smoke coming out of the engine. That was not the case here. Birdstrikes are happening on a quite regular basis (there are 13,000 per year in the US alone) and aircraft engines are designed to withstand birds weighing up to 3.6kg (8 lb) which is tested with frozen dead birds that are shot into the engine during the certification process. In this event is it quite likely that the pilots did not even noticed the birdstrike during the takeoff roll and therefore continued with the takeoff roll as normal. They will probably not realise that they hit a bird until they do the outside check after landing. Therefore, if the engine parameters don't change drastically in the cockpit no takeoff abort or return to the airport is needed. Some may ask: Why don't they put a mesh in front of the engine to protect it? It's simple: There is no need for that as this would not help in any way or may even worsen the situation. The impct speed of 100kts is killing the bird instantly regardless of hitting the engine cowling or a mesh made out of metal. In the worst case the mesh will burst and the metallic parts will cause serious damage to the fan blades and core of the engine. Furthermore the mesh will worsen the airflow into the engine, resulting in a higher fuel consumption. Coming to the SOUND of the video: The video is shot on a tripod standing on a gravel path around the airport, the sound is recorded with a video shotgun microphone that mainly collects sound in front of the microphone and some of the sound behind it. The strange sound you hear (a person walking on a wet gravel path as it rained just before the takeoff) is so loud because the aircraft engines spool up around 3 kilometers away and the sound is relatively quiet when it hits the microphone. On the other hand, a person jogging and walking behind the camera is just about 5 meters away, making that sound much louder.

Bird: *dies the guy in the background: *minecraft stepping grass noises

No suffering. The bird died in 0.0001 sec That's how death should come to everyone

That bird was a whistle blower

Can we just appreciate for a second how clean that 747 is!!

RIP bird April 15 2019-22 November 2020. Our prayers are with you.😢🙏🙏🙏🙏 (cue the sad music)

Momma bird: Look both ways before crossing the runway.

Props to the guy who recorded this amazing footage. Professional work right there! 👏

Who's more interested in how magnificently the plane took off instead of the bird strike?

The birds in heaven: Bird 1: how did you die? Bird 2: oh well, i starved in the forest... you? Bird 1: i got sucked into a plane engine Bird 2: ....

Can we take a minute to talk about the fact that these engines are designed and engineered well enough to withstand something like this without exploding or breaking down?

Скорейшего выздоровления этой птичке

Flight engine: *exists* Birds: "Oy that looks nice and cozy"

Nobody: Nothing.

Mother bird: son, don't get close to that big bird. He can kill you Bird: why, he doesn't have a beak. So he won't eat me a few moments later:

The bird took a good flight. Straight to bird heaven.

Plot twist, the bird was a Boeing whistleblower

At least the bird went through the engines bypass, not the core.

Now that was a stunning catch. A rare 747 combined with a bird strike.

Amazing recording skills, amazing camera equipment, amazing rare aircraft with bird strike. I'm not surprised that this video has over 3M views

That is an incredible aircraft! That bird is about as impactful as a June Bug striking your F150 on the interstate.

It doesn't look like it was entirely sucked into the engine, rather it hit the side rim of the engine and blew up all around.

Wow what a smooth video recording!!! Congratulations for that footage. What a beautiful view!

Lucky guys, not so much the bird ☹️ but looks like it got the outside of the main fan, so would’ve likely passed between the core and the outer bypass. Another quality catch 💪🏻

Why people dislike this? It's literally everything the tittle says

Plane: *INHALES* "why does this smell like bird?"

Who put talc powder on the runway

Thats the good thing about Turbo Fan engines. They are designed with a high by pass duct around the engine. If something gets ingested the huge fan blades divert the object to the by pass duct which is a space between the engine and the engine housing. I was a former Navy Jet Tech and worked on Pratt& Whitney TF30 P408 engines. At one time I was working on an engine that had ingested a duck. It bent one of the forward fan blades which were made of titanium. Bent it like the blade was made of taffy and ejected it through the by pass duct thus saving the internal parts of the engine. Turbo Jet engines have no by pass duct.

0:22 R.I.P bird

That was so smooth due to camera angle it was like a magician's trick when a dove becomes confetti. It's hard to see the exact moment the bird disappears and debris appears.

Amazing footage! Thanks!

Man the quality of this video is amazing.

He is right. Suffering a lot of pain for a long time is more horrible than these kind of I stant death

😢

That footage is AMAZING. Good catch!

In fact, the jumbo is the best civil airliner in the history of aviation, and it will probably stay secret! They won't do any better!

It literally was sucked in and exploded. Even the camera thought the bird was going to make it. It literally skipped a frame past the engine and then got pulled back in and exploded into theoretical bird fragments.

Bird: lemme go fly near that thing about million times bigger than I, making deafening noise, and see what happens...

Hey! Great vídeo and description - explanation

This plane is so beautiful !

That is one collision a bird is never going to win. What a great looking and sounding plane. Wow.

Bird: "This really SUCKS!"

That's a nice plane! 👌

Great vid - looks fantastic with the focal length so high .

Wrong place, wrong time! What a splendid piece of footage. I like how the description says that the plane was struck by the bird ;)

Beeindruckender Take off! Fast hätte es der Vogel noch geschafft. Daumen hoch fürs einfangen! Gruss inselvideo!

Bird be like : Watch yo jet bro! WATCH YO JET!!!!!!

Bird:why are you kill me Plane:no you died yourself

Bird sucked in so hard that bird's wing couldn't keep up and separated.

Man I forgot just how nice the 747 looks!

Bird: "Look at that giant, loud spinning thing. The smart thing would be to investigate it."

I was in a terminal waiting to get into a jet aircraft when it was announced that a bit had been caught in an engine during the craft's previous landing. The bird was removed and the engine was started to be certain no damage was done. The engine performed normally, so passengers allowed to board and the flight proceeded uneventfully.

What amazing clarity you got with such a high zoom !

I came here to appreciate the video quality. What an amazing shot! Beautiful plane!

What a BEAUTIFUL 747 😍

🙏RIP🙏 For This Beautiful Creature

Incredible footage! What a beauty. That poor bird tho.. 😅 Well done guys!!

My deepest condolence to the bird families 💔

Damn thats very good camera movement im impressed!

natural selection at its finest

Can we just appreciate how it goes into the engine a bird and leaves it as what looks to be like a ready to cook piece of meat? Some videogame madness out here It probably got cooked too by the engine

this is the highest quality video ive ever seen of an airplane lifting off in my life

STUNNING AIRCRAFT EPIC VIDEO POOR BIRD BUT WOW YOUR FILMING IS FANTASTIC

amazing footage man, especialyl the gears

Shredded bird went through the bypass air

I have never seen such camera work before, you can hear how the camera man is running while filming, yet it's incredibly stable footage. Props to you man

such a great and steady shot

Great camerawork

Rip little bird it got sliced to pieces :( poor little Birdy

I wandered if bird thinks plane is like king bird Just think about it they probably think that "the bird that does not flap it's wing shall be king" and then they see plane and said "K I N G"

I miss the 747 man. That plane was an icon bro…

That's one big airplane. Love those.

Wow! That bird got sucked in so fast, the beak kept on flying without a bird attached.

This is one of the reasons of why I feel much safer flying on a 4 engine aircraft...

Fantastic video!!!

Bird:*blinks* Bird:Huh? Why am i in the bird heaven?

*bird gets hit by plane* Government: “some of our drones are going to be sacrificed, but it’s worth the intelligence”

Wakanda forever😔

I love how the engine had unexpectedly become the birds grave 😀

Boeing 747 decolando e um espetáculo!

0:24 aww poor birdy, all there is left now is.... feAthErs

Feeling very sad for the bird. 😔😭

Amazing footage.

Nice takeoff and views. Also, that bird is my dinner! 😂

Rip bird Who was someone's Mother/father Sister/ brother Child Etc

Oh my God it blew up

I once met a pilot in a bar a few years ago. He told me about how they regularly have to "bird test" new jet engines.

I like how the bird just casually flew INTO the engine like it didnt even want to live anymore

Bird strike is something that occurs every day. And when it comes to small birds, there's no sign of impact on the engine.

Sonho em viajar nesse gigante, assim como no A380. Espetacular

#3 munched a portion of the bird, pilots didn't even know. Nice video, and VERY clean aircraft, btw...

very good camara!

Bird: Hey big bird, you wanna play tag?? 747: Okay.... Bird: No wait... Aaargh! 747: Tag, you're it...

Talk about the proverbial "as fast as shit through a goose." 😜

Queen of the skies

That plane is a beauty .

Looks like the small bird couldn't stop the "big bird from flying"

Q: What's the last thing that went thru that bird's head before he died? A: The #3 engine cowl of a Boeing 747.

That is a beautiful aircraft.

Wow, what a beauty.