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Originally Posted by speede5
Good post but I disagree with you here. They know something more than us, if the engine failed and they don't know why they would ground non essential flights for a time at a minimum. DND has stated there will be no impact to fleet operations at that means they know something. Hopefully it was a bird.
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With all due respect, I grew up in the world of military aviation (as you may have guessed). Born @ CFB Bagottville, lived in CFE (Baden-Sollingen) in the 70's, two tours in Goose Bay and ten years in Cold Lake. Engine failures in the J75/J79/J85 era were rather common place and in the case of the CF-104, always resulted in the complete loss of the a/c. Fleet groundings due to engine failures did not happen.
Granted they are less common in the present era but we're also operating only 80-odd high performance fighters now, as opposed to the hundreds of aircraft back in the day. Given their rapid assessment I would (as I stated in the first line of my initial post) lean strongly in the direction of a bird ingestion, likely reported as such by the pilot. Access to the R/T traffic during the incident would be indicative, but I doubt that will ever be released for public consumption.
Cheers, Ron