F-16 engine ingests bird after takeoff.```````````````````

A"Bird Strike," as seen through the HUD. You can see the bird just Prior
to impact. These guys were very cool; note the heavy breathing... they
certainly flew longer than one would expect before ejecting. Airspeed can
be observed on the HUD's upper left corner.

On the other hand, it just goes to show how quickly your day can go to
pieces - 45 seconds from strike to ejection.

All and all not bad for the emergency checklist, two relight attempts, and
picking out a plowed field for impact. You can follow the audio attached
to it and hear the conversation between the pilot and instructor pilot and
the tower including the pilot saying they were punching out. The tower
didn't seem to copy the IFE transmission.

The video continues until impact. A classic "buying the farm" as you can
see the plow rows get bigger.  A real nice job from the aircrew by keeping
their cool and turning the aircraft away from populated areas. You can
hear the aircraft voice warning system telling them they have a problem
and referring to the "D-6 NL" which means there is no engine RPM. There
were 2 attempts to relight the jet engine.   But, evidently there was too
much damage from the bird strike and they had to get out. No one hurt and
no one killed!

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