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[–] geovoat [S] ago  (edited ago)

That was a bird not a drone.

It's the difference between a bag of potato chips and a 20lb block of meat.

And you'll notice the engine did NOT explode but remained intact and tried several times to automatically reignite (the rythmic puffs of flame and smoke you saw as the aircraft was climbing) .

They found bird parts on the runway.

No one was injured or harmed.

Aircraft engines are designed to fly though hailstorms. Here os one eating a giant ice ball. http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/engine-ice1.gif

They are incredibly robust.

Ironically if the FAA hadn't needlessly shut down the entire commercial drone industry there would be drones flying at airfields keeping birds away and preventing bird strikes.