Understanding what happens to an airplane engine during and after a bird strike reveals why most incidents, though potentially destructive, rarely end in catastrophe.

A bird that was sucked into an engine during an Alaska Airlines flight Sunday actually wasn’t such a rare event.

A Condor Airlines flight from Corfu to Düsseldorf had to make an emergency landing in southern Italy after one of its engines ...

“Not long after we took off, I heard the engine, the one engine I guess, apparently sound a little different and I was like, ‘That kind of sounds funny,’” said Saginaw resident Jill Sienko. Other ...

A Michigan-bound plane landed unexpectedly after a bird collided with the engine.