Jet engine ingestion

A jet engine ingestion is an occurrence when an object is sucked into a jet engine. Ingestion of an object can cause engine failure.
Birds or other flying animals can be ingested into aircraft jet engines. This happens thousands of times per year.
There have been incidents of humans being ingested into jet engines. Most of these were accidents or suicides.
Other objects can be ingested and cause engine damage or failure, such as what occurred in Air France Flight 4590.

Fatal incidents of humans being ingested

On January 14, 1990, Daniel John O'Brien, a man from Illinois, trespassed onto the tarmac of Piarco International Airport, stole an automobile and crashed it into a taxiing British Airways Boeing 747, which destroyed the car and injured O'Brien. He then got out of the car and threw himself into the no. 2 engine, killing him instantly.
On December 16, 2015, ground engineer Ravi Subramanian was ingested into the no. 2 engine of an Air India Airbus A319 in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, after the engine came too close to him, unaware of it due to him wearing intercom headphones. The aircraft's pilots started the engines after mistaking a ground crew signal for pushback.
On December 31, 2022, ground crew worker Courtney Edwards was ingested into the no. 1 engine of an Envoy Air Embraer E175, which was on idle, as it arrived at the gate at Montgomery Regional Airport after accidentally stepping in front of it.
On June 23, 2023, ground crew worker was ingested after he intentionally stepped in front of the no. 1 engine of a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 which was taxing to the gate at San Antonio International Airport.
On July 8, 2025, a man was ingested by the no. 1 engine of a Volotea Airbus A319 which was taxiing for takeoff at Milan Bergamo Airport.