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Very definitely a [[Truth in Television]], as the jet engines most people are familiar with are the high-bypass turbofan engines on commercial airliners, which [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1DkUOOfDFk draw in a tremendous volume of air] and thus produce hurricane-force winds in the region near the engine inlet. Ground crew that must work near active jet engines must keep anything not tied down (including themselves) some tens of meters away, outside the hazard zone, or else risk being drawn into the engine. The spinning item at the very front of the engine is a very-not-forgiving ducted fan made of titanium blades, which will rapidly render an animal as large as a person into something akin to [[Nightmare Fuel|chipped]] [[Not Enough to Bury|beef]].
Any type of foreign object that strikes an aircraft (either the airframe or the engines) and damages it is called [[Exactly What It Says
Note that the turbofan (jet) engine is so called because it contains a turbine (at the very back of the engine) which turns a fan (at the very front of the engine). The bladed disk at the front of the engine is a fan, not a turbine.
Fun fact: [[What the Heck Is An Aglet?|the scientific term for remnants-of-bird from bird strike is "snarge"]], as it was probably the cleanest word to come out of the mouth of the first jet-engine mechanic to encounter it.
Might happen to some superheroes that [[Flight|fly]] [[Look Ma, No Plane|a little too close to a plane]]. [[The Incredibles|Especially when wearing a cape.]]
Subtrope of [[Deadly Rotary Fan]].
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== Anime
* The fourth episode of ''[[Mnemosyne]]'', where {{spoiler|Rin gets mulched in a jet engine. She gets better...after 20 years of regenerating. And comes back with amnesia.}}
* Ruby-Spears ''[[Mega Man (
== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[
** ...And then Zodon plays a 'practical joke' on him that results in it happening in real life. It backfires spectacularly in that it ends up curing the good captain of his phobia instead of compounding it when is forced to use his flight to [[Look Ma, No Plane|put the damaged plane down safely]].
== Film -- Animated ==
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** {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] suffers the same fate at the end of the movie. In his case, the engine explodes.}}
** It exploded for {{spoiler|Syndrome}} but not the earlier super because she was wearing [[Civvie Spandex|traditional spandex]] whereas {{spoiler|he was wearing [[Powered Armor]]}}.
* In ''[[9]]'', it's how {{spoiler|The Winged Beast gets dispatched.}}
== Film -- Live Action ==
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* Subverted and played for laughs in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode I'': a Pit Droid is sucked into what looks a lot like a jet engine, which utterly destroys said engine and puts the pilot of the craft out of the podrace. Not only does the sucked-in pit droid ruin the engine, it also gets spat out the other end, with no apparent damage at all.
** Sebulba, being the dirty cheater he is, pulls off a part of his pod ([[Fridge Logic|that he doesn't really need]]) and throws it behind him. It hits the engine of one of his pursuers and is promptly sucked in, tearing the craft apart.
* A Nazi [[Giant Mook]] gets carved up by the propellers in ''[[
* Happens to [[The Dragon]] in ''[[Die Hard 2]]''. He gets plenty of time to slowly lose his grip, too.
* Variation: In ''[[
** Also happens to Gustav Graves in ''[[
* ''[[Flight Of The Living Dead]]'' has this happen to the "boss" zombie {{spoiler|(who used to be the unethical scientist who caused the whole mess)}} when the emergency door is opened. {{spoiler|[[The Stinger]] shows him to be not quite dead.}}
* A [[Mook]] in ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger
** Later on in ''[[The Avengers (
* During the 'Dragon' sequence in ''[[Sucker Punch]]'', one of the orcs tries to smash its way into the cockpit of the plane. Amber shoots him in the face and he loses his grip: falling into the prop where he is turned into a fine grey mist.
== Literature ==
* ''[[Alex Rider
* In the non-fiction book ''Aftermath'', the author describes the process of cleaning an airplane's engines after this happens. Unfortunately, the incident described in the book involves a human being- an airport employee killed during routine maintenance. The engine has to be disassembled and every piece cleaned by hand by a specialist crew in biohazard suits. It takes two weeks.
* In one ''[[
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Matthew Reilly|Seven Ancient Wonders]]'' dies by getting thrown into the jet engine of a 747. Or, more accurately, getting ''pulled'' in by his safety rope getting thrown into the engine.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Happens to one of the passengers in the beginning of ''[[Lost]]''.
* ''[[
* Happened to [[Stephen Colbert|Air Colbert]] in real life, putting her out of commission for a while.
* In ''[[Firefly]]'', [[Anti-Hero|Mal]] kicks a thug into his [[Cool Ship]]'s running turbine after the man threatens to [[We Will Meet Again|hunt Mal down]] and [[The Last Thing You Ever See|kill him.]]
** He [[Continuity Nod|refers back]] to this in a deleted scene from ''[[The Movie|Serenity]]'', where he jokes to {{spoiler|The Operative}} that if the latter doesn't stop [[Contemplate Our Navels|pondering philosophical questions]] and get out of the way of ''Serenity'''s take-off, "you never will find out".
* One of the ''[[CSI]]'' episodes had a chopped up victim who turned out to have been pushed into one.
* ''[[The X
* Happened on ''[[Bones]]'', where the victim of the week was accidentally pushed into a running turboprop propeller.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[The Far Side]]'' had a bird reporting on a plane crash, with a caption something like: "Details are sketchy, but we have heard that the name of the bird sucked into the jet's engines was Harold Meeker."
== Video Games ==
* The first Bloodbath Challenge in ''[[
* ''[[Saints Row]]'' 2's "Crowd Control" diversion has you protecting celebrities from their crazed fans by picking them up and throwing them into various hazards, among which the still-running turbine of a jet plane.
* One antagonist in ''[[Terranigma]]'' is defeated this way.
* ''[[Bug Martini|Bug]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518155429/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/top-bug/ wanted] to have kill marks for birds sucked into his engine, but this idea was [[Incredibly Lame Pun|shot down]].
▲== Web Comics ==
* The ''Savage Chicken'' in ''[[
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Amateur Surgeon]]: Christmas Edition'', moronic surgical genius Alan Probe accidentally flies his private jet ''right'' into Santa Claus' sleigh, and one of the reindeer is ground up in one of the turbines, causing him to crash.
* Happens at least one in ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.
== Western Animation ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[The Simpsons]]'': After [[Expy|Totally-Not]]-[[Mary
* In one of the episodes of the final season of ''[[I Am Weasel]]'', I.R. Baboon tries to jump onto a grounded (but still moving) airplane after rescuing a cat from a tree. He gets caught in the engine and shredded. The engine then catches flames and causes the airplane to skid onto a hill in the background, where it explodes.
* Subverted by the titular hero at the end of one episode of ''[[Underdog (
== Real Life ==
* In addition to bird strikes (which are quite common, according to FAA documents released in April 2009), there have been a handful of cases where a human body has gone into a jet engine, with the results being just as gory as you would expect. The engines in these cases are invariably destroyed.
** [
** Continental 1515 ran up its right-hand engine for a maintenance check and [http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ae_1273782186 ate an engineer (NSFW -- Gore)] who was standing too close.
** During a training flight in a BAE Hawk, the single-engine plane ingested a bird, causing the engine to fail. Pilot and trainer ejected, both survived with varying injuries. See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnq-nmHYHNM here].
* ''Awesomely'' subverted in [[Real Life]] by (former) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3Iz7b95-8 Petty Officer J.D. Bridges] during the [[Gulf War]]. This is the guy who was famously sucked into the intake of an A6 Intruder's jet
* [
* In the early 1950s in the Soviet Union, an early-production MiG-15 ate a test pilot. Because of the MiG's "pig nose" intake design, it was an extremely messy scene. The commander wanted to bury the plane to cover it up and give the pilot a "decent" funeral, but some objected and recommended to clean and reuse the MiG. However, the mechanics were too disgusted to take the plane apart, so in the end the wings, tail, guns and parts of the cockpit was salvaged and the rest was buried along with the bloody mess that was what was left of the poor guy.
* Averted (luckily, to present day) at [http://www.beauvais-airport.com Beauvais Airport] north of Paris, France. Due to the design of the terminal building (large glass-panelled hall with no installations outside, designed originally for smaller propeller planes), people have to embark or disembark the plane just in front of the building, while the next airliner taxies to its parking spot
* Real jet turbines are actually tested by firing a
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